Exit Daylight Saving

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 6

Exit Daylight Saving

The rejection of Mr. Sidey’s Summer Time Bill in the House • of Representatives was not The Prime Minister had been as good as his word in, giving the Bill “a fair run”; but all the rural forces that could be swept into opposition, backed up by various city interests, were arrayed against it. ; The testimony of doctors, schooh teachers, and large city employers Counted"for nothing with the members of the House who had been brought into line by the farmers. The division list makes an interesting study. Of the Ministers, five representing rural interests voted against the measure and four representing urban- districts for it, while Messrs. Anderson and Nosworthy were absent and Sir Francis Bell was in the Legislative Council. Obviously the farmers had a^m a i in the Cabinet and it may be assumed they were not without friends, in the revising, chamber. There does not appear to have been a single member representing an urban district, with the exception of. Mr. J. M. Dickson, the retiring member for Chalmers, who voted against the Bilk '