"I DON'T LIKE IT"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 8

"I DON'T LIKE IT"

' ANTI-SUMMER TIME ."• ';■■■". ARGUMENTS ■ ... (To the Editor.) 9b—l notice by your sub-leader in ye* terday's issue that you '■. suggest that th« supporters of "Summer Time" should make their voices heard. It is difficult to enter j into a controversy in which bo much nonsense is being written. During the summer months I travelled"a great-deal, in the country districts and inquired on every available occasion at dairy factories and from tanners regarding the working ot the Act. On only one occasion:did X meet with an objection, and-that wag from a farmer in the Motueka "Valley, in reply to my usual question, he said: "I •j t «i k< l IK His son > standing by, said: But, father, it makes no difference j° "f" vi He replied: "I know that,--but I don t like it." Upon being further questioned as to how he got on, he said: "Well. by standard time we work from 7am till 7 pm and by 'Summer Time' from «??• U 8 p-m-« bufc I don't like it." .w^-rf 3 ?°- v t0 do with acase lik« that.' ihe dairy farmer who says that he^lways worked from daylight till dark, and under Summer Time" works an hour longer, is only on a par with the old lady who approved of the change because she noticed an improvement in her tomatoes by reason of the extra hour o£ sunlight. The farmer who objects to the change and calculates the loss of butter-fat by milking an hour earlier can be compared to a city accountant who was found carefully working out the financial benefit the Got-' ernment were deriving by the. saving o£ oil supplied to lighthouses. The fact is that the change came in and ran its very short course with a minimum of inconvenience to anybody, and proved of inestimable value to, the great mags o£ the people that the opponents have now: only one objection—"l don't like it."—l am, etc., .;..■.. . 9th March. V ' ■; '' ■[ .. *™-* " (To the Editor.) Sir,—lf builders and others want to pass resolutions against daylight saving because for some obscure; reason, they, do not uke.it, let them, but it is quite unnecessary to talk such a lot of nonsense about its being bad for. women and children. It has been a great boon to women to have the. extra hour of daylight for sewing after: the small children are in bed, and it is absurd to'say that it is against human nature to enjoy extra -daylight. Personally my eyes have been much better owing to working less with artificial light. Nearly all very young children are put to bed at 11 a.m. for an hour, and they go < to sleep at once. In England all children go to_bed by daylight, as there they not only have daylight saving, but a much longer twilight.—l am, etc., MOTHER OF FIVE.