A BUSH ARGUMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 41, 18 February 1929, Page 6

A BUSH ARGUMENT.

The wliare was situated on the edge of the last remaining bit of native bush. Aeross the mad. and as far as the eye could see, was fallen timber and burnt-off underscrub. A picture of desolation. After tea visitors came from other whares and sat round on the bunks and the floor, smoking and listening to the gramophone. Somebody mentioned daylight saving. Bill, a tall and talkative wiseacre of middle age. who overflowed with bush lore, delivered himself thus: "Well, of all the crazy, cranky things I ever struck I think this idear o' changin' the time the daftest o' the bloomin' lot." George, whose father has a farm, agreed. •'Well, 7 ' says the newcomer. "I think it"~ a fine thing to give you an extra hour's daylight." "Don't be silly! How can anybody give yeh more daylight':'' asks Bill. "But."' persists their new friend, "it has been working in the Old Country for years and nobody wants it stopped. Why, I know men who play golf till ten o'clock at night." "Golf!" yells Bill. "Blime. do you play golf?" That's about the daftest game jroin'. Golf!" "You don't know what you are talking about." "I don't want you to come here tellin' me anythin' anyhow, you bloomin' townie. You're one o' these clever jokers that knows everything We've had your sort up here before."' Then he subsided. '"There's no need to go crook. What's your objection to daylight saving':" asks townie. "We won't have none of it, that's all. Why should we get up half an hour earlier for you to play golf, eh? So that's the end of it so far as I'm concerned. I'm off to bed. Good-night. Oeorge— golf!" he jeered, as the door closed. The others followed. ''Bill's a. funny old chap." said the townie. "All the same he's just about right there. Daylight saving, as they call it. is no good to us," says George, setting the alarm. "Oh. well. I suppose we had better get to bed." said the visitor, "(ieewhi/z: Ten o'clock! Is that the time. George?" '"Xo, it's three-quarters of an hour fast, but it's the time we work to." "Why':" "So as we can get home early to cook our dinner and chop our wood." "Ah, I see." —R.J.