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Gisborne Art deco town clock repainted

1,428 views · Published 24 March 2016 · 1:09 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: gisborneherald · 2016 · Entertainment

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This week Gisborne said see-you-never to shades of salmon and hello to the new grey colour scheme on the city-centre Robinson Memorial Town Clock. The clock has its first colour change in a decade but its history is much richer than that.The tower is said to have been modelled after a lighthouse and was chosen as the winning design in a competition for a new town clock in the early 1930s. The need for a new tower came after the 1931 Napier earthquake damaged the existing town clock tower on the chief Post Office that stood north of the courthouse on Gladstone Road. Today’s town clock might look a little different from when it was built in 1934 but it incorporates the original turret and chiming mechanism from the Post Office building. Next on the agenda is the installation of LED strip lighting. Owner of painting contractors 1st Class Decorators, Michael Smith, says his team grew up in Gisborne. “They were really interested in doing it. It is such a prestigious thing to get to paint, it is great.”

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