THE WASTE OF DAYLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12995, 24 December 1907, Page 8

THE WASTE OF DAYLIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE TT.ZSS."

&ir. —What a shocking waste of daylight is now going on in our fair Dominion! Here is the euii up and shining before 5 a.m., and 'yet the most of folk Mill be abed two liours or moro longer! Not to epeak of the needless u*e of gas. oil, etc., at tie other end of the day!

Reversing an idea strongly being advocated now in England by" the loading papers, lot us discuss a sehemo for 200 more hours of daylight. Xerd I expatiate on its advantages? A summer evening lengthened by 80 minutce, time afforded to make an excursion and get back befdro dark, considerations hygienic connected with inoro sunshine to be enjoyed, and manyothers which I hope a discussion will evolve.

The scheme, briefly, is this:—At 2 a.m. on Sunday morning all over the Dominion, each of tho first four Sundays of September, let it be understood that all timepieces ar© advanced 20 minutes; this will daily givo 80 minutes more daylight, October to March; and, in April, for four Sundays it be universally over the islands understood that at 2 a.m. on each of these days timepieces are to bo put back or stopped for 20 minutes (that ranch extra lie-a-bod for the lazies!) But, seriously, Sir, the sehemo is certainly practicable Even if a September Monday morning's train or tram, timed to leave at 8 a.m. does not do so till the clocks say 8.20 a.m.. that 20 minutes can bo regained bit by bit through the forenoon, till trains and trams can be running again "on time" through the week? Why not? Hoping that the scorn with which some of your readers will receive the notion will prompt them to raise objections in print.—Yours etc., i HEXRY BRADDOCK. Vicarage, Kaikoura, Marlborough.