DAYLIGHT SAVING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1933, Page 6

DAYLIGHT SAVING

(To the Editor,) Sir,—ln teply lo jour correspondent, "The Sim," I made no suggestion that thoise who commence woik at 7 m 8 a.m., or even eailier, would have to woik hall an hour longrr, Uie point js that they would be going to woik earlier (by coirect time), that they usually have longet woikiug days llwn we who woik iv offices, and that they would be unable to get to *ipep <l 'one?pomiingly carJiet owmjj to the general inten uption ol toutine and the ocntiniianee of .daylight beyond what roust nctpwsaiily be the bedtimn <»f thee who go to woik. very eaijy, "The Sun' fuither (stale* that my ifmaik* about tho^e in charge of hospitals »nd homes for orphan* and others i* equally "bende the point, a*, unfortunately, ■ dajlight wying will not give them nhoiter horn*." What doe* he mean? I dxt not /.ugffett that it would give them fcUoitcr houm. As> a matter of fact, the general <lieorg.init.ation ot lOHtitie.-will piobably be retpounble tor longer h.our/6 ior them. Then cornea the gem >n ywr con es-pondent s l^ttPi, papjely, ''As for the dijldien, it is a pity th»t 'City Dweller' has not a family, af, that wouJd be the best argument to convince him." W«l|, I am thank"" to say thut I h^e a wjfe and cbi!4ren; thejefore, X (should be a good judge,—l am. etc,, CITY DWELLER. (To the Editor) Sir,— Kindly allow jne a little (space in answer to your conespondenl, "The Sun." Whether Uie advocate lor oidmaiy times i« in the minoiity or not docs not altei the tact that the eitra hour or lutlf-hom' is an added hut die for the majority of dairy i.umeis, Noilly all daily iaimei~> have their clocks advanced half an hour to <in hoia in case ot a bieakdonn 111 the poi\er that dines the milking machines. It a bieakdonn occui?, the tanner hai to get all hands out and leveit to handnjjlkniK to be at the fattoiy on time, l'nttiiig the tloek on an extia hoijt Mould moan gieat liatd^hip. C'o«s have their legnlar habits, aecoidiiijf to Natme, foi eating, browsing, and les-ting, whirh all good fuimerb iecogni»e, and do their utmost to fit in with. "The Sun" H'ty*' in mo»>t things little New Zealand follows blindly the lead given by Great Britain. When one takes into conujdeiatiou the long cheerless jvinter experienced in the Old Country, wpeie cnttle we housed for practically nine months of the year, it js jio wonder the people want the extra ftumJiine while it ib to he had; but here in New Zealand conditions ure fco ntilrjt thet we keep almost all of our *tock )t> the open,—l am, etc,, 50-00.