“Sitlev Time” is the term adopted b v vessels of the Union Steam Ship Company touching New Zealand ports, in wireless messages announcing the hour of their expected arrival. It has always been the custom on vessels arriving from overseas at New Zealand to gradually alter their clocks to conform with the astronomical time, of the part of the world in which they happen to he. In the case of Sydney and Auckland, this variation on a standard time basis amounted to one and a half hours. The adoption in New Zealand of “summer time” makes the dis>erepancy two and a half hours, and the extra, hour’s adjustment will Jbe made accordingly on vessels arriving here from the Commonwealth.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 November 1927, Page 11
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