DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 6

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Mr. H. H. Sisson is not a very deep thinker. The Great Architect certainly gave us tho moon and stars by night, and the sun by day, but He did not set the clock so that we slept by day and worked or played in. the dark. Our forefathers did that by setting tho clock wrongly. We in this supposedly enlightened generation should only be too anxious to rectify that mistake. Mr. Sisson also says that fowls have more sense and that they <lo not get up any earlier. He is right —fowls have more sense. I have known fowls of different kinds, but the feathered variety get up earlier in the summer, and so take advantage of the daylight that was given them. Now if Mr. Sisson takes Nature as his guide he cannot help but be one of our greatestadvocates for daylight saving, and instead of a miserable half-hour the clock would be set back to comply with the rising of the sun. That is what tho Great Architect intended. WALKING ON THE LIGHT SIDE. ANOTHER WORD FOR THE ALSATIAN. As an offset to the (perhaps limited) virtues of the Alsatian 1 should like to state a pieviously-unreported incident. I had a little flock of some thirty sheep running near a King Country township. An Alsatian dog at daybreak one morning recently got amongst them and before being disturbed by a shotgun I mutilated seven so badly that they had to be destroyed, in addition to ripping a number of others badly. It is reasonable to assume it would have destroyed the lot had it not been disturbed. Unfortunately for me, the dog escaped, and I was unable to identify it from a number of others in the township, and 1 had to bear the loss. SHEKL' FARMER.