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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 76, 9 March 1931, Page 2

The disastrous effects or the Hawice's Bay earthquake on all towers made it obvious that the Government would be saved one item of expenditure—the post office clock tower, without which no post office .has been considered completed. After Napier the order was given to take down the Cambridge post office tower, and now the Government has decided that the tower of the Masterton office must be demolished. The heavy balcony over the main entrance is also to come down, and in the old part of the building a steel girder is being put under one of the floors that supports some weighty mechanism connected with the telephone exchange. Now Masterton is wondering what will become of the clock that was bought by publie subscription as the finishing touch to the tali tower. This clock, owing to the nature of the weights that keep it going, must be placed in a fairly high tower, but until people are sure an earthquake-resisting tower can be erected it is likely that Masterton will have to depend on its watches and other clocks for the time.