DAYLIGHT SAYING BILL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1927, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAYING BILL.

(To the Editor). Sir-—One of the hardest and most cruel impositions that has been .thrust upon the New Zealand farmers i-s that of the passing of the. Day-light Saving Bill. Years ago, before- the advent of that most humane invention, viz., the milking machine, it wa.s a common experience to see li-tt’e children in -school tired out and drowsy through their early rising lor hand milking. This Bill will now put the children of today in the same plight, for that hour’s sleep and rest lost tin the morning must and will have its effects shown throughout the day. Not ony does the farmer, his wife, and children suffer, but also the animals, and I am afraid that next winter will tell a worse tailp of poverty and unemployment. We cannot compare this country with England, which is industrial, while this is one o-f producing. As the Bill apparently must now be in force for three months, the only remedy to relieve the farmer i-s to open schools later in the morning, and to extend closing hours at the fa-etories.

It was beginning to be recognised that since the advent of the slump period, a better mutual sympathy and understanding was being created between the townspeople and the farmer, but now the general opinion is that the breach will only become widened. The statements made at the Waimate West Comity meeting by Messr© J. F. Stevenson. E. Long and F. Mouriei are sound logic, which prove the hardship inflicted upon the- farming community. I am, etc., CHILD WELFARE. Hawera, Oct. 20.