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Kōrero: Timekeeping

Floral clock, Napier

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Floral clock, Napier

In the 1950s there was a fashion for public floral clocks, copying American examples. Auckland, Christchurch and Napier each created clocks. Napier’s clock was formally dedicated in December 1955.

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Jock Phillips, Timekeeping – Time and society, 1870s–1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/6698/floral-clock-napier (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.