SUMMER TIME BILL

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1929, Page 2

SUMMER TIME BILL

SOME OPPONENTS LEFT. INTERESTING INCIDENT IN HOUSE. • WELLINGTON, October 2. The. Summer Time Bill, Which has piUssed the 'Leghllatiye , Council, has been awaiting consideration in the ■House of Representatives for. a fortnight and 7the , chance arrived five •m unites before'tlje • time of /adjournment. to-night.. .As it-'is proposed to Operate from Sunday Week, ; the Government was anxious to bring the .matter forward early, and, despite’ the handicap of time, the Hon T. M. Wilford; Minister of Justice, moved its i second reading in a ‘ very brief speech, hoping that the second reading would be approved before the House rose. It was no hew Bill, but carried out the conditions of last year’s measure exactly, he said. The only difference between the measures was that the present one provided for perpetual advancing of clocks at the beginning of summer, whereas the former measure was for a / year’s experiment. It was the half-hour compomise, personally he favoured a full hour, and had voted for it for eighteen years. As summer time should operate on Sunday week, he urged members in his most pleasant tones fo get to the second reading through at oncei Mr . Campbell, • Reform member for Hawke’s Bay, who was greeted by a Labour member with the rejnnrli, 1 ‘Here comes the twilight,”;.laughingly assured members that he was not going to hold up the Bill, but he would like the Minister in his reply to deal with the point that the whole of tfie North Island and some part of the South were now on the .wrong time, and there should be an alteration of half an hour throughout the year.

“Put that off for another day, shall we?” pleaded Mr Wilford. But the Bill’s opponents were not in a compromising mood. Mr Samuel . (Thames) l-ose to speak, find cries of!- /‘Time’’- showed'* he talked \chit ; the,. s^bond' reading stage, though \it ’ isjthe P>‘»yH lege ; to put , Sfiittmer time; 'at - tfie.' top/ of the ‘order 'paper |or next sitting.