SUMMER TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 8

SUMMER TIME.

iii all parts of New Zealand to-morrow there/ will b> a; nuinber of persons who will miss tramp and trains and be late for church, and some will anathematise Parliament for its ihterferenW with the clock. But. the amount o£ inconvenience willbe very slight, and it will decrease every year, as the community grows moro accustomed to the : change.: It is noteworthy that, whereas the -.earlier Acts, provided for only one season, this-makes the change permanent. la other words, the experimental period has passed, and dayhgh s ,vihg has become part.of the. accepted S?he-let : = illustratesthe, British genius for compromised The first experiment was with Suhour,but the opposition ****£# w,s- considerable, and.it some quarters at any rate, by the factual the iirLummer of trial was exceptionally ho| A reduction to half an hour has made the principle* more• popular, and- it seems mo,e likely-that the half an hour will becom hour' than that the half-hour will disappear Tho. experience of Britain will be the experience of .New Zealand. Summer tune has worked so well there that no one considers agitating for its repeal, and similar considerations will make it a permanent institution here.