DAYLIGHT SAVING

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 149, 23 March 1928, Page 12

DAYLIGHT SAVING

Sir,—May I reply to "Daylight Saver,” who writes so scathingly from Hastings, and incidentally enlighten those who imply that lack of parental discipline gives rise to the complaint that chil‘dren are losing valuable sleep under Mr. Sidey’s regime. The fact is, that a great many country mothers help in the cowshed in an endeavour to save labour, and. make both ends meet. The small children, therefore, must be put to bed either before the evening milking begins, or wait, however tired, until it is finished. In the former case the children, often tiny tots, would be left alone in a house some distance from the milking shed for a considerable time, an unsafe proceeding, most parents would admit,. as generally a fire must be left for the evening meal, washing the separator, etc. We Lave not all a convenient electric kettle. And so the oibies must wait until milking is finish?J, and they are washed and fed, a very late hour in the heat of the summer, when milking cannot be commenced at an earlier hour. I fail tc see how the judicious use of the slipper could remedy this. —I am, etc.,

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. Eketphuna, March 17.