DAYLIGHT SAVING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 7

DAYLIGHT SAVING

♦ SUPPORT OP LOCAL BODIES,

Advice has been received that during the _ past fortnight another 22 -local bodies and other organisations have passed resolutions in favour of the adoption of "summer-time," making a total of 97 bodies, which have expressed their approval during the last few weeks. There is an impression in the minds of many that the proposal is only for the purpose of increasing facilities for outdoor amusements. Its adoption at Home and on the Continent was brought about mainly on economic grounds. It has proved a considerable factor in materially reducing one of the items in tho present high cost of .living. In this respoet, everyone benefits, farmers and city people alike. As a rought average, one may say that artificial lighting comes , into use in the summer months about 7.30 p.m., and on the same rough average is put out at 10.30 p.m., standard,time. Under "summer time," the clocks being an hour fast, the light will nat be needed till 8.30, but tho extinguishinj time will bo 10.30 by the clock. Thus at one stroke, the average householder's lighting bill is reduced by one-third. Day-light-saving is a direct and by no means trifling element i:i the reduction of the cost of living to the individual.