DAYLIGHT SAVING
Farmers Want Shorter Period
Conflicting views on daylight saving were expressed at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington yesterday. It. was decided to recommend that the period of daylight saving should be from tbe first Sunday in November till the first Sunday in March. A remit to the effect that daylight saving of half an hour should be continued throughout the year was rejected. Mr. A. E. Lambert (Auckland) said that the scheme had been instituted for the benefit of townspeople; it had been detrimental to farmers, rather than in their interests. “If the townspeople realised just how late the sun does rise in the autumn and spring, they would not be so keen on dragging tbe farmer out,” he said. “If we can t get daylight saving wiped out altogether, we should try to get a reduction in the period.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 13
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148DAYLIGHT SAVING Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 13
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