Sir,-T.P.M. (Taihape) criticises what he calls "the long drawn-out strokes of a very toneless clock" (i.e. the Wellington G.P.O. chimes), and suggests that they be discontinued. I do not agree with him, although he is right in saying that sometimes a good record is interrupted for them. Thousands of people check their watches and "clocks by these chimes, however, and they are not what he calls "toneless." He recommends the Commercial Stations’s procedure of announcing the time. Frequently, from 2ZB anyway, the time they give is as much as two minutes out, which is disastrous if one has to catch a train every morning. When we hear the chimes from 2YA we know that we get the exact time, as the Wellington G.P.O. clock varies about only half a second during a year. Also I’m sure many people such as aviators and ships’ captains understand that it is most important for them to have the exact time, though admittedly, a ship does carry a chronometer. Trustine’ that the chimes will still ring out and give
exact time to many.-
J.K.
S.
(Petone).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 108, 18 July 1941, Page 4
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