THE COLONIAL BANK CLOCK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11807, 9 August 1900, Page 8

THE COLONIAL BANK CLOCK.

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —Would it not be well to remove the hands altogether from this very erratic timekeeper? There is no denying the fact that it appears wholly incapable of using them to the public advantage, or in a similar manner to other clocks. It unfortunately stands in a most prominent position—a position calculated to do a good deal of good or an immense amount of evil. That the evil is dominant is unquestionable. It has been anathematised till it has got brutally callous. How many have had just cause to curse it on account of losing a tram or the keeping of some^ important appointment. This afternoon it positively refused to budge one minute beyond 1.45. If it had only kept going for another quarter of an hour there would not have been so many clerks and shop assistants who got a wigging for being ]ate. I would suggest, as a set-off, that ho who lias the regulating of that clock should give notice of his intention to publicly appear in Princes street at a certain hour. I fancy we would be able square matters. —I am, etc.. Two o'Clock Sharp.

Dunedin, August 8.