TOWN HALL CLOCK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 4

TOWN HALL CLOCK

WHEBE IS IT TO GO? WELLINGTON’S PROBLEM In the interests of public safety, the Wellington City Council lias decided that extensive alterations should be made to the- tower and p.rtico of the Town Hall, and that at the same time the heavy ornamental balustrading Work round the top of the building should be removed. At the moment there is no money and the work may be delayed for some time.

If the tower is to be reduced very much in height there will be no room for the clock, and inquiries have been made as to where it might bo re-erected. One suggestion was that- it might be nrovided for in the National Art Gallery Museum buildings to be erected on Mount Cook, but this has been ruled out. as there are no features of the b idding which could lend themselves to such a purpose. Accordingly the clock may be without a home if the tower is reduced in height, but there appears to be ;i fairly strongi weight of opinion among councillors that the alteration of Hie tower should wait a while, perhaps a pood many years, even though the state of the tower lias been adversely reported upon. If the clock is removed it will be greatly missed, for it is now much more readily visible from most parts of the city than the Post Office clock, which has been “built out” in several directions.— Post.