DAYLIGHT SAYING.
CRITICISAI FROAI FARMERS,
Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL. Jan. 20. The Daylight Saving Bill was again discussed by the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday. Some members expressed the view that there was not sufficient time that day to discuss the question, others advocating the dropping of other business and carrying on with the summer time debate, one member referring to the rumour that the farmers “are not game to take the Government on.” Mr R. Arnott said that it had been suggested to him that Mr Sidey’s effigy should be burned at a picnic which was being organised by the women’s division. Another member: “My wife hardly gets up one day in the week without cursing Sidey. It is the women and children who are suffering. It- was decided to defer further consideration of the subject till the March meeting.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1928, Page 6
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