SUMMER TIME NOT YET ENDED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21117, 19 March 1934, Page 11

SUMMER TIME NOT YET ENDED

i contusion <\rsi:i) i:v ( AI.ENDAKS Some conlusion. with it > amusI i,ik side, has resulted from the j amending legislation winch provided lor the extension of summer itime. Printers of Mime calendars 'omitted to make nmvision fur the extension, and on Saturday afternoon enquiries were made at "'1 he Press*' office about the actual date jof the closing of the dayliunt. sav|ma period. Yesterdav a telephone ici'll was received from a man who hud mistaken the hour of an apI pointment. as a friend had put his clock back. Most churchgoers had noticed the extension, and there were very few who had mistaken the time. Under the old legislation summer tune would have ceased yesterday, but amending laws provide for its extension this yeai until the last Sunday in Aprii. That amendmu legislation hail j been drafted as lone, ;»s U" months |aH" was di.-Ooscd hv the Minister ! lor Interna! All'airs (the Hon. .1. jA. Yuitnfj). uheii speaking during 'the mtroductorv stages of the '• Summer Time Amendment Hill m |lhe House ol Representatives on ; November L!T IT!::. The lull, he said, provided lor uppi oximaleh !.-e\.en weeks" extra (!a>hi',hl savin': | Summer time besan on the las; Sun - ;<■';■>• in September, and it would end jon the last Sundae of next innii'h | Under the old law it started on the j second Sunday m October a'ul i'mI 1.-hed on th.e third Sunciav in .March.. I