DAYLIGHT SAVING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAVING

(To the Editor). Sir, —Your statement in your leading ing article in Saturday’s l issue, that the presence of a Summer Time Bill again before the House and passed all except the. Legislative Council would come as a, bombshell was substantially correct. An.otirr statement that the fammeais may not- think that a half-hour is worth bothering about is far from correct, as will no doubt be demonstrated when the different bodies get together. To have this noxious Bill again thrust upon us, shod through the House in its dying stages, and that in committee, adds insult to injury, and is a direct sit® (call it what you will) on the intelligence (and remember w© display more consistency than Parliament) of - the producer of this country and the other sensible people who opposed the Bil 1!. If ever we had a Government with little initiative, no back Irene, .no thought, and no care for the producer, we have it now. One would naturally think that when a. Bill has been tried and found to lie a failure, and then thrown cut bv Parliament, that would 'be thfl ast of it. But here we have a Prime Minister who evidently says: ‘‘Air Sidey, von have been a true arid faithful servant, and I cannot let you leave politics l without starting front tytere you knocked off.” And 'here we have the head of the Government nursing the very Bill he has so often opposed. Farmers, oroducers. if this is jiot a sign of weakness, fear, intimidation, ask yourself. I have always supported Reform, but no more, and I would like as a protest for every farmer to. vote foe the man who is considering the interest of the country be foie a fe\v individuals. I challenge anyone to, contradict the statement that the producer is the backbone of this country. I know that this statement hursts some people who are narrow in their vision, but nevertheless it is true. 1/ also challenge anyone to prove, the Government lias stood .behind the producer in this Bill, but have quietly .rubbed the acid in instead. When Parliament defeated the Summer Time Bill the farmers, who could not work with it were naturally pleased. But when the Premier showed his weakness and allowed a local Summer Time Bill to appear the farmers never raised an objection to the. towns having the measure, hut the Bill .simply would not work and so it condemned itself. Instead of doing the onlly wise thing and a,l .owing all this twaddle about summer time to stand aside, we find this halfpie measure .shoved upon us-—.ldee, the chemist who says: “You’ll find this medicine extremeLy nasty, but if too strong take half a dose.”

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