DAYLIGHT SAVING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 9

DAYLIGHT SAVING

REASONS FOR BILL’S DEFEAT. MR. SIDEY EXPLAINS. A REFERENDUM SUGGESTED. (By Telegraph—Special io The Star.) WELLINGTON, July 26. The author of the Daylight Saving Bill was receiving condolences quite cheerfully to-day. “So far as I am personally concerned,” said Mr. T. K. Sidey to your correspondent, “I will always have the satisfaction of having secured my objective of many years, of getting a trial for daylight saving, and that was a great thing for any private member to achieve. 1 have never anticipated getting further t-lian that stage, feeling that the responsibility for further enactment should rest with the Government. Asked his opinion as to the cause of the defeat, Mr. Sid-ey pointed out that eight votes were not recorded which appeared in last session’s list, only two of these being opponents, while Mr. Jordan, who was absent on the- Canadian delegation, was refused a pair by the Bill’s opponents. He attributed the defeat not so much to the actual change in members -as to the- feeling that- their constituencies were against it, and especially to the imminence of the general election. A good deal of pressure wias brought to bear by the Bill’s supnorters at the last moment, hut for a ’long time the Deponents were more active. Finally. Mr. Sidey suggested that pressure was likely to he brought on the Government* to put the daylight saving issue to the electors by a- referendum, though there would be strong opposition to this course from country districts. So manv people have experienced its benefits that it is difficult to believe that we have heard the last of summer time in New Zealand, concluded Mr. Sidey.