SAVING THE DAYLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 213, 5 September 1912, Page 9

SAVING THE DAYLIGHT.

I "" -' A HE>E-AiN"rMSHEK HOUSE. ' - • (By —Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON', Wednesday. 'When the House resumed after the | :*ppper adjournment .to-night, Mr. Sidey's ! New Zealand Mean Time Bill was taken ' in"its committee staarp. Members for the greater 'part. di<l not. -treat the measure •with particular seriousness, most of the speakers being evidently intent upon epsirrhig ,-ith the- clock in ordpr, .-to reach the .limit, beyond which the i '~H6rise may not enter upon new business. The bill is fast •becoming a. hardy ; annual, and despite the. earnestness of a _ "Section of mirmbera to give New Zea.- , ;. land, .particoJarlv the farming and ath-i "^•H*!-sections-of tire <-ommTinity, more ; to prolong the. 3nylightj the clock m euomipr. j •"-tte House as -a :hody played football' *Jth %c proposn!. ' ' I . ' "'AiCnisterial Matcmnnt was forth- 1 ifroni the T»rnne Minister at 12.30 j ' fun. The O'ovprntnprit, he stud, wan not : ■- gang to ■fca.-fcp up th« ibill in its !prcsp.nt] form. The 'hill would not. pnes as it: ■now stood. The <'H.ii inwJ thn towns I cwild hoy* the hill, but -thp country districts could not ontertniii ii. In thp.! "Wintrr districts of the North Islarid the Ml would irrterfprr with the* hi? •nidcsiries <»f dairjMTijr and cropping. Tf *hese jndßPtrips .were asked to start an "fur earlier llieio would be such an ■mitcry that membnrs did not realise, "; ? ™ on M like to 7*we the 'bill a chance, ™it it •wonld not go through in its pre- ■ form. A A T orth Island repre*entatwe -who voted for the bill ■would not see Parliament again. ■:: At 1.30 supporters of the hill tired ■ under the stonewall of the country ■- pajfcy. and at 1.40 progress iras reported ■ and. the House adjourned.