WHO COMES FIRST?

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 193, 29 May 1934, Page 8

WHO COMES FIRST?

MOTHERS OR TENNIS PLAYERS?

VIEWS ON SUMMER-TIME. (Special to the " Guardian.") AVANGANUI, May 28. "Who are we supporting; the woman who swings* a tennis racquet or the one that rocks the cradle?" asked Mr H. J. Hutchings (Featherston) at the Interprovincial Conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to-day, when opposing an extension of the Summer Time Act to make the period applicable to the whole year round. "Go right back in history—back to Fox if you like—who was it they all backed? Who is it Hitler is asking them to back in Germany to-day? Look what it costs the young dairy-farmer to put the child in the cradle to-day. (Laugliter.) I know what I'm talking about, because I put eleven there, but grey hairs in my head tell you they are not there how. Our duty is to the mothers who rock the cradle, not to the lady who a tennis racquet." Prolonged applause followed, ' after which the remit asking for an extension of the daylight saving all the year round went out with a unanimous vote against it. The conference then proceeded to discuss summer time as it operates to-day—one half-hour from October to March—and by a unanimous vote agreed that there should be no alteration.