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English: Local prisoners completed construction of the Port Lyttelton, timeball station in 1876. The station signaled Greenwich mean time to ships in the harbor.[1] Lyttelton's timeball was one of three in New Zealand. The others included Wellington (1864) and Dunedin (1868). The station discontinued dropping the time signal after December 31, 1934. However, restoration of the property completed in 1978 eventually led to resuming the schedule of dropping the signal at 1p.m. daily.[2]
Date circa 1982
date QS:P,+1982-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
:1983
Source Photographer: Randy C. Bunney
Author Photographer: Randy C. Bunney

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2007-05-27 13:13 673×983× (973154 bytes) Fishdecoy ==Summary== '''Location''': Lyttelton,New Zealand<br> '''Date''': circa 1982:1983<br> '''Photographer''': Randy C. Bunney<br><br> Local prisoners built the Port Lyttelton, New Zeland, timeball station. The station signaled Greenwich mean time to ships in

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