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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1931, Page 5

P.O. TOWERS DOOMED. The disastrous effects of the Hawkes Bay earthquake on all towers made it obvious, that the Government would he saved oue item of expenditure—the post office clock tower, without which no post office has been considered complete. After Napier the order was given to take down the Cambridge post office tower, and now the Government has decided that the tower of the Masterton office must be demolished. The heavy balcony over the main entrance is also to come down, and in the old ;part- of the building a steel girder is being put- under one of the floors that supports some weighty mechanism connected with the telephone exchange. Now Masterton is wondering what will become of the clock that was bought by public- subscription as the finishing touch to the tall tower. This clock, owing to the nature of the weights that keep it going, must b a nlnoerl in a fairly high tower, hut until people are sure an earthquake-resisting ttower can he erected it is likely that Masterton will have to depend on its, watches and other clocks for the time.