ELECTRIC TOWN CLOCK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1807, 21 July 1913, Page 5

ELECTRIC TOWN CLOCK.

''OPENED" AT PETONE. Petopo now boasts' a municipal town fclock,' without' which no town of any pretention to exactitude is complete. The new electric timepiece was formally opened on Saturday afternoon by the Mayor (Mr. J.' W. MTEwen), who, after B few appropriate remarks, pressed an electric* button, which, operating on the mechanism of.the clock, set the chimes in motion. Among those present were e number of visitors from Wellington. (After the ceremony the visitors partook :t>f the hospitality of the Mayor and councillors. Apologies for absence were to-: ceived from the Prime Minister and the Hons. R. Heaton Rhodes and A. L. Herdman. The new electric clock was manufactured by Messrs. Gent and Co., of Leicester, and was supplied and fitted by •Messrs. Thomas Ballinger and Co., of at a total cost of ,£5lO (in(finding three subsidialryi tilocjks within • the municipal building). The clock is 'controlled by an impulse transmitter, . .which is an accurate time-measuring ir.eohtmism, the function of which is to jsend the current generated by the battery .to the impulse dials at half-minute intervals. It al9c automatically controls the duration of the impulse to suit the requirement of the dials. Every dial is governed by the transmitter, which has H compensated seconds pendulum; guaranteed to within ono to.three seoomls per tVeek. No weekly winding is needed, no (Adjustment of the hands is required, and ■pleaning is rendered unnecessary.