DAYLIGHT SAVING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING

PETITION AGAINST IT. INTENTION OF FARMERS’ UNION. COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE. CBY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO "THE STAR.'9 WELLINGTON, May 3. lo is the intention of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to petition Parliament against -the further enactment of this daylight saving legislation. All branches of Hie union Avere circularised Avith ijhe object of collecting evidence against it as a result of recent experience; also signature® to be attached to the petition.

it Avas -imported to-day by Colonel Pow, general 'secretary to the executive, that he had .sent out the circulars, AA’hicl; had to be returned by a certain date, but the branches had been slew. HaAvke’s Bay had gone to special troub’e in printing its own circulars and had sent in a lot of forms.

A delegate: “Mostly paper-.” The president (smiling): “Under.” The secretary added that information was needed to dra-AV up the text of the petition, a® t-lie Avording wouild depend on what Avas supplied by the provincial executir.es. This should have been received by April 30, but not one had arrived. Last year he had drafted a petition and it Avas pulled to pieces in Otago, iso lie Avas molt going to do it on his own account again. Mr Poison (president) remarked that he Avas sure the necessary information Avould be sent. The neglect was only due to a bit of (slackness.