DAYLIGHT SAVING

Evening Star, Issue 19999, 17 October 1928, Page 10

DAYLIGHT SAVING

ANOTHER LIMITED TRIAL DECIDED ON CASTING VOTE' [I’BOM UUK I’AIIMAIttMA!,I IIEfOKTEH ] WELLINGTON, October 17. Tho halt' hour ol summer lime which came into operation on Sunday is again to bo au experiment Jur one .season, and it will be necessary to raise tho question in I’arliumont nest session if any further change in standard time is desired in the summer. it becomes evident Irom examination ol tlio minutes ol Hie Select Committee of the House wliieli took evideneo on Mr T. K. Sidey’s optional Summer Tune Bill that the original report of the eoininitteo would have provided lor a permanent settlement ol Iho controversy on tbe coin promise basis ol hall au hour, but Unit tho inenihors were equally divided, and on the the chairman's easting vote, the report was altered to recommend the turther trial tor one year. There was a heavy balance of evidence against tho optional principle. Mi (I. M’Xamara, Secretary of the Tost and Telegraph Department, told the committee that optional summer lime would he accompanied hy .serious inconvenience, which might be met to a certain extent, but only hy additional expenditure without any compensating increase in revenue.

Shipping interests were also against tho proposal, unless there was a gmiranleo of nnilonnity at all ports. .Waterside workers generally approved ol last year’s legislation, hut considered that dual time would cause so many dillieulties that it would be impracticable.

I fail way DepaiTment. wituoscs produced (Mailed evidence lu show that dual summer time could- only ho carried out hy providin'.; additional train services and increased expenditure without cor re.-pond in;; return, and they ■(eared that it would encourage molor unnpelition. Thus, the Select Commilleo had jio difference of opinion over a. decision that, optional summer time was impracticable. It therefore considered a draft report, recommending the (Jovernment to frame legislation for a half-hour advance of the clock in summer. _ An amendment was moved by .Mr AV. S. (dcim to add to the report the limitalioii of fhc Act for one year. He was .supported on division hy (Messrs Lysnar, .7. I!. Hamilton, and Sir Maui Romaic. On the other side there were also four voles: Messrs K. P. Lee. T.K. Sicley, D. (d Sullivan, and AA‘. A. A'citch, .It therefore lieeame necessary lor the chairman (Air 10. I’. Lee, OamanO to exercise his casting vote, which he did in lavnnr of the limitation of the experiment lo a, year. Sir Maui Roma re and Messrs Glenn end Lysnar opposed any further daylight saving legislation, but the votes of the chairman, Messrs Sidey, Sullivan, Amitch, and ,7. 11. Hamilton, carried the compromise report which led to [lie Act Heine; passed.