FATE OF THE CLOCK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 6

FATE OF THE CLOCK

NOTHING definite yet. NEW POST OFFICE AWAITED I he fate of the Wangnnui town clock hangs ~, the balance. Those of optimisin' nun,l vision a new post office being provided for in the estimates next vear, in which case, a home for the lime-pic.,, which has done duty for so hmg will be found without a great deal trouble. Contrnet<)rs are at work removing Hu- conereto ornamentation from th«» I'H'scnf building and the demolition th-! cloc k tower is to follow. The clo It"Olf will be handed over to the ( "ouncil L>r SH f ( . keeping and, presum- ■ I'ly, it will be hold until the new post •fiwo actually appears, whether that bo 'Lis year, next year, or .sometime later SpY-oral sugp'f stions have bon male nith regard to the disposal of the ”iock. One was that an arrhway should <> erected at the Guyton Street, inter-'-iion of the Avenue. Another that the timepiece be s< t up in a tower in -ither Cook’s Gardens or Queen's Park, have suggested that the clock might be established in a specially con'trueted arch over the Town Bridge. In all these suggestions the actual -:/p of the clock has been lost sight of. I h<* pedestrian who looks up nt the lial daily is not fully impressed nt, the task involved in handling the whole mechanism. A tower to hold it would ost a tidy sum of money to-dav, partieularly if it is to possess earthquake resisting qualities Likewise an a»rh Aonld have to be specially constructed. Mr J. Patterson, one of the contra •- tors engaged in removing the tower, r< marked humourouslv yesterday that, ho had caught the directorate of the Wangaehu Dairy Factory on the Office corner and had offered them '•lock for a pound. Thov seemed in-•line-1 to accept, but whether the civic ■luthorities woubl agree to a sale at that figure is another matter. Probably there are many Wangaehu residents who would like to see the clock adorn an imposing frontage at the fanSvnchroni'ing clocks have a great Appeal those 'lays. The major timepioco of a city is set to keen the time and all the lesser clocks, connected bv that powerful medium «lectricitv, conforn tn it, chiming in their \arious localities. be they suburban or otherwise, at the .-eme time. If the new post office 'loos not appear within reason able time it is probable that the old clock will actually be. sold to soma smaller town and Wanganui will signify its progressiveness bv investing in something on more mod?rn lines.