"WHACKING THE CLOCK"
A CAMP'DUTY' V , S !"
The orderly bugler on duty outside Headquarters at Featherston Camp has a duty, to attend to, in addition to playing .the various camp calls. at their appointed times. This duty is lenown, in camp parlance, as "whacking the dock," tho "clock" being a four-foot length of railway iron, slung on a stout gallows. At every hour- the bar is struck with a heavy hammer, and the trumpeter on duty does the striking. The notes produced have, a booming, vibrating sound, which is hoard all over the camp. Tho Public .Works staff had a similar "clock" during the period that the camp was being built. Trumpeters, state that more ability than might be expected _ is required to "whack the clock" with masterly skill, especially at.twelve o'clock.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 10
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132"WHACKING THE CLOCK" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 10
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