The clock tower was constructed with money donated from Arthur Hopwood, a Palmerston North businessman. It was completed in 1957, and utilised the clock from the Post Office tower, which had been dismantled after the 1942 Waiararapa Earthquake. The sound shell is no longer part of the structure, being dismantled sometime in the 1990s.
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Hopwood Clock Tower, The Square
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- IMCA Digital Archive
- Date
- 1960s
- Digitisation ID
- 2010P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_004526
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
Creation
- Created By
- Alan Fielding [?]
- Place
- The Square, Palmerston North
Object rights
Taxonomy
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