DAYLIGHT SAVING.
TO THI IDITOE OT TH* PBISS. Sir,— It seems a great pity that some people should contemplate discounting the ' Summer Time Bill, as they appear to be doing. The idea is not to have a longer day, but to have more daylight arid less artificial light for our work and play. Yet we are told that the picture proprietors intend opening an hour later, thus compelling those who wish to attend the pictures to be up an hour later than usual. As they must rise by the clock they will lose an hour's sleep, which is decidedly bad for the children. It is rumoured that the trams will run later to correspond, thus lengthening the day of trie unfortunate tramway employees, who also will lose an hour's sleep.
Why cannot we simply accept the experience of England, where daylight saving has been in force for some years, and where nothing is done beyond putting th© clock on one hour? No altering of time-tables, or anything else.—Yours, etc., M.L.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 16
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