MORE DAYLIGHT SAVING?

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 4

MORE DAYLIGHT SAVING?

Sl r> —May I comment upon the letter published in 'The Post" on Wednesday in which a correspondent advocates the passing of another Act of Parliament to compel all people to put their clocks a further half-hour ahead. Your correspondent correctly states that there have been very few complaints about the half-hour Summer Time being kept up throughout the winter months. The public recognise that it has been a valuable factor in helping out the electricity supply position in winter, and have cheerfully accepted it as an emergency measure. A full hour of daylight saving may appeal to a section of those who start work at 9 a.m. in office or shop, but many thousands of us start work at 7.30 a.m. or earlier, after travelling long distances, many to go into such places as a gloomy foundry or a draughty, half-finished building, or maybe stand in a leaky punt under a wharf doing repair work. On the raw windy mornings we are doing well enough as matters stand. There is nothing to prevent anyone who wishes to do so from getting up half an hour earlier and doing some healthful garden work before breakfast.—l am, etc., 6.45 a.m. TRAM-CHASER.