DAYLIGHT SAVING.
-T—» ; 1 SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT BY. A LONDON FIRM; A practical experiment in daylight saving is now in. progress at the establishments, of Messrs. Elders, and Fyffes, Ltd., fruit importers, in London and tho country. When tho Daylight Saving Bill was carried through Committeo the following notice was posted up at each one of the firm's fifty odd branches :— DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL. "In anticipation of the passing of Mr. Willett's Daylight Saving Bill the office hours will be: 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., instead of 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., until September 30." The firm's offices have now been worked for five weeks on the new plan, and tho resuit is an aggregate saving of fifteen hours of daylight. The new arrangement, which is in force at Brentford, Stratford, Woolwich, and Bow Street, in the London district, and at Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff, Southampton, Bristol, Birmingham, and Belfast, among other large towns, haa proved exceedingly popular. Messrs. Elders and Fyffes' saving of daylight has boon effected without any alteration of their clocks. ' Work simply begins and ends half an hour earlier than previously. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 9
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