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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 11

The behaviour of the Tower of London in recent years, it seems, has not been altogether what the public has expected of so venerable an institution. Unsuspected by everyone, save the lynx-eyed staff of the National Physical Laboratory, it has ■ slipped. This idol of the British public> it is reported, has feet of clay—blue slipi ■ per clay. The Salt Tower is moving, ac- v cprdingto the report of 1929 of the National Physical Laboratory, in the direcs ' tion of the river bank at the rate of half ’ a millimetre a year. And this is not alh The fluay' wall, too, is moving, slipping ' away, be it observed, from the river bedi ' It is as if the Salt Tower has resolved ■ to frustrate its attempts to throw itself into, the river. The wall has moved twd millimetres in the last 10 years.