25 Jun 2020

Carillon bell tower weaker at the bottom

From Morning Report, 7:48 am on 25 June 2020

The Carillon bell tower at the National War Memorial is stronger on top and weaker at the bottom - exactly what engineers have warned could lead to a total collapse.

That's despite six years of expensive strengthening work supervised by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

Phil Pennington is looking into this.

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