Smoky message on time
PA Wellington Orange smoke wafted across the front of Parliament Buildings yesterday afternoon as a group of Northland residents sought to reduce the period of daylight time.
But even as their blue cardboard time capsule billowing smoke attracted attention, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Tapsell, told reporters he had no intention of making changes. Thirty-eight families at Ararua last year decided they would not observe daylight time. Early this year they began a petition to have the period of daylight time reduced 48 days. They want it to begin at the end of the school year and finish on March 1. It now runs from October until early March. The petition, of 12,408 signatures, was formally presented in parliament by the member of Parliament for Kaipara, Dr Lockwood Smith (Nat.).
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Press, 12 July 1985, Page 3
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