DAYLIGHT SAVING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 15

DAYLIGHT SAVING

FARMERS' VIEWS DIFFER

WANGANUI DISCUSSION

Opinion was sharply divided at tho monthly meeting of the Wanganui executive of the New Zealand Farmers' TTnion this week as to whether the half hour of "daylight saving" should be increased to an hour, reports the "Chronicle." Ultimately the meeting decided to support the remit of the Wangaehu branch, which strongly protested against a change. Mr. A. D. Mclntosh, in moving that the remit be adopted, said that the Wangaehu Branch, considered that the present half-hour was quite satisfactory, but it was contended that if an hour were decided upon, the district, which was chiefly occupied m. dairying, would be greatly handicapped. _ "I am. against the motion. I am in favour of the full hour," saia Mr. T. Howie. " Although there was opposition to it when the Bill was first brought in, there were many who favoured, it after a trial.". "I am a dairy farmer and : milk a large herd, and we have only finished in time since the half-hour came in, said Mr. C. Corliss. "It: is not necessary to follow the clock, because you can start at daylight and a man can i have a bit of a spell in the middle or. Mr. G. B. Moyle thought that if a referendum were taken through the Taranaki and Waikato districts the daylight saving would be put out altogether.: It was the most unfair thing ■that has ever been put upon the child'•red of the country. • . . 1: "Only two hours are. required for milking, and I-fail to see how daylight saving can hurt the children," replied Mr. Corliss. "That is a lot of bunkum as far as I can see. Only people with a town supply would bo bound by the alteration of time, anyway. Mr. B. Campion (a sheep farmer): (Well, lam«n favour-of the hour. The farmer as a rule forgets ab.but the clock. ■Mr. Moyle: But you cannot muster .before 9 o'clock' because of the dew on the .sheep. '■.■•.••:.• ' • ; . 1 Mr Campion: Voucau always use a night pen. For the life of me I cannot understand the opposition to the hour. I know of men who were opposed to the alteration at first, tut once it came in they never turned their clocks back .when the winter, came. You want to forget the clock. If children have to work those hours you mention, there is something wrong. Daylight saving should have nothing to do with it. " ' _"