"BIG BEN" IN CAMP

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 3

"BIG BEN" IN CAMP

AUCKLAND I'jROVIDES A CLOCK •TOB FiUTHEKSTON. "I'll bet that's our (own clock," enjs oni! liouio-servko Auckland soldier to illicit bur as ho entora tho l''cathereton Alili- & liny Camp mid espies tiio big limc-pieco [1 -u-hicli the Halval.loll Ariuy Institute hat; k eroclod :i Imudsomo tower to uceoinmo- U dutu—with a flagstaff complete. On to- | quisat, (ho Auckland City Council voadily \i Krauted the free use of tho city's "Big K Usm," which for years past looked down I i'roiu llio Now Zealand insurance Build- fe iuffri and Klock Exchange upon frequent- K era of tlie old Post Office and Queen j<; Street. Hithorlo (ho camp nas had a. $ ■striicturn composed of two uprights and K a crosspione, from which is suspended a. S short length of railway iron. Tho busier $ on duty would cross over from Head- | quartern, and, seizing- 11 heavy short- j handled hammer, pivo the iron bar from t one to twelve smiirt strokes, according. j lo tho hour (mid even strike the half- ? hour) of tho day or night. This could \ bo hoard all over tho camp. Thanks to s Auckland's City Fathers, however, tlio I musical tones of their town clock now Ji supersede the "clung, olatijf" of tho \ primilivo "iron-rail" timepiece, and its * threo faces can be seen practically all | over the camp', both by day und night. { The Salvation Army's now clock tower is % a landmark for miles nround, aud in t% addition to providing an offico aud a li- £ brary on tho ground floor has Riven j space for a largo well-furnished writing i and reading room—and also a small writ- C ing and devotional room—upstairs. k