TO EXTEND SUMMER TIME
No new arguments were submitted against Mr. McKeen's Summer Time Amendment Bill. The opposition revealed simply a disinclination td abandon the old-time hostility, and to justify this unyielding attitude described the change as "tinkering with the clock" and a concession to sport. This is not correct. While sports bodies are naturally interested, the reform is based principally upon nationally important considerations of health and" public economy. And if the alteration of our working hours to make the best use of daylight is "tinkering with the clock," the refusal to recognise the fact that the N sun does not rise at the same clockhour in summer and winter is just unreasonable clock idolatry. However, some of the country members of the House of Representatives were not so determined in their opposition to all concessions, and as Mr. McKeen offered to accept an extension of the Summer Time period we may hope to obtain this benefit. The Government will, we trust, grant facilities for the passage of this modified measure.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 12
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172TO EXTEND SUMMER TIME Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 12
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