DAYLIGHT SAVING IN SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 96, 18 January 1924, Page 7

DAYLIGHT SAVING IN SCHOOLS

AN AUCKLAND PROPOSAL A proposal bv Mr. T. IT. M ells, that an hour’s daylight saving be introduced into the Auckland schools during February, so that the pupils could begin lessons at 8.30, and put in two attendances dailv bv 1 o’clock ordinary time (2 p.m. daylight saving time), failed to receive support from other members of the Auckland Education Board to-day. Mr. Wells said his preference was that the school hours during February should be determined by the headmasters and the chairme.n of committees, but headmasters did not like that idea. During the hot weather the half-holiday was not necessary in some schools, and in some rooms, but in others the atmosphere was simply stifling, and his daylight saving proposal, if carried, would enable the worst heat of the afternoon to he avoided. Mr. J. Boddie said they could not , expect country children to attend school an hour earlier than usual. He « had heard more complaints from mothers about their children being sent home in the sweltering noon-day heat tb.au in regard to their remaining in It was finally agreed to leave the matter of half-day attendances in February to the discretion of the headmasters and chairmen of committees.