WHAT OF OUR CLOCK TOWER?

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1928, Page 4

WHAT OF OUR CLOCK TOWER?

AX, IMMOVABLE SILENT POLICEMAN. Til Wellington some motorists have lathered aiul lashed themselves into a state of furious indignation over the audacity of the Public Works Department in daring to construct a central pillar of a railway bridge over the Hutt lload the pillar being in the middle of the car fairway. The indignation, however, ha.s somewhat subsided -since it has been made clear that the pillar will really make for safety by divding the traffic, and that any motorist who butts into this big white safety post doesn’t deserve to bo entrusted with the navigation of a wheelbarrow.

Tlieie was a somewhat similar problem in quite another part of the North Island a low years ago. It concerned that n:ctu’-'"' , ' < |"o historic crag Poluituroa.—“The Tali Hock”—which stands at thet <■ntranre to the little seaside town. The looal body didn’t like that -entry reel; at their front gates, so they prop"*ed to demolish it and convert it into useful road metal. Fortunately one er two men who appreciated -conic and historic values capsized the road-metal party. Pohaturoa stands where it did, and is now recognised, 'hut not only dees it possess a landscape value; but it serves a useful purpose by dividing the motor car traffic. Tt is Whakatane’s silent policeman.