COST OF MR. SIDEY’S ACT.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —I have to ask to intrude on your indulgence to write re daylight saving. By the result of the present vote, I see it is being beaten, which it rightly should be. Kow, sir, if your paper could publish the number of hours that Parliament has discussed the one-sided measure and multiply the hours by £3OO which it costs the country to run Parliament, according; to Mr Coates’s statement, then the public would consider very seriously the class of men whom they return to Parliament, who only waste the ratepayers’ money and increase taxation bv insane measures. I am, etc., — FARMER. (We regret we -cannot spare the time to make the calculation our correspondent suggests, bu-t we would remind him that if our legislators had not been discussing daylight saving rhey would have been spending as many precious hours in debate on some other subject. It is the, price we have to pay for democracy.—Ed. “The Star.”)
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 March 1928, Page 4
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