SUMMER-TIME.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 July 1924, Page 5

SUMMER-TIME.

AIR. SIDEY’S BILL. (By Telegraph.—Special to Star). WELLINGTON, July 24. Air Sidey met with u considerable amount of Hostility from country memjers in tne House, when liis Bill.cable ip for the second' reading to-night. Air Hawkeii, speaking'for the dairy producers, called it a very unfair proposal. It would be all very convenient md pleasant, he said, tor daylight aving tc- enable the townspeople to 4et a wav to golf or cricket, but that ujoeb should not be attained by in- - rerfering with the most important industry in thsi country. if daylight laving came in the dairymen who now up at 3.30 would rise an hour earlier, and would have to go to bed it 6 o’clock! Air Hawken: Acs; a seif-re,sneering lien would not go to roost ;.i that ’ time. (Laughter). He must .-ppise the dill, though if the towns liked by resolution to adopt daylight saving he would not object, hut they sb'.mkr i.ot ntcrfare with the hardest-woiked i.b.ss ;n the community. Air Corrigan (Patea) said lie was . -repaved to vote for the second readng, as he thought a bogey Had been nade of the dairy farmer, who already worked from daylight to dark. Ho would like the matter investigated" by i select committee. A member: What about the trains? Air Corrigan: They run to suit themselves. (Laughter).