DAYLIGHT SAVING

Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 March 1931, Page 9

DAYLIGHT SAVING

ENDS SUNDAY WEEK. EXTENSION ADVOCATED. Summer time will end on Sunday, March 15, and all clocks will be put back half an hour, unless Parliament decades otherwise. In view of the vast amount of work to he clone in the devasted Hawke’s Bay district, it has been suggested that summer time might well be extended to the end of April or thereabouts,. Four years ago the summer time scheme was first inaugurated. A full hour observed in the first year, and there has been half an hour in the three succeeding years. The period of the middle of October to the middle of March. It became a

permanent measure by tlie Act ol 1929. It was over 60 years ago that New Zealand’s present standard time was adopted on the suggestion of Dr. Hector. In the early days there was no need for very exact time, hut with the increase in telegraphic and railway facilities and the introduction of steam navigation some change was necessitated and in the early ‘sixties it was realised that a uniform system of time reckoning was needed. The country’s mean longtitude, 172 degrees 39 minutes east, was selected as the basis for calculating a. standard time.