The fate of the post office clock at New Plymouth is in the balance, and before long the civic authorities may be asked what they intend doing with the municipal timepiece. Though the clock is at present accommodated in the tower of the existing post office, it is the property of the New Plymouth Borough Council, which is responsible for its annual mainTenance. It occupies its present position by courtesy of the post office department. No provision is made in the proposed new post office for the clock, and it is understood that when the new courthouse is erected on the site of the present post office block, and the whole of the blo<;k undergoes reconstruction, the existing tower in which the clock and its chimes are located will probably be demolished. If this is done the Borough Council will be asked to remove the clock and chimes and place them
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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