Clock Has Now Gone Back Thirty Minutes

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7169, 17 March 1930, Page 6

Clock Has Now Gone Back Thirty Minutes

DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS. It is said that "time and tide wait for no man,” but once a year, mero man can sit back and ivait for the pendulum to swing for 30 minutes before resuming the steady race against these untiring competitors. So it was on Sunday morning at 2.30. o’clock when the clock in the Post Office tower was stopped for half-an-hour to mark the end of the daylight-saving period and to usher in the winter evenings. Summer time commenced on October 13, 1929 at 2 a.m. the extra half hour of daylight being in vogue until yesterday. The majority of citizens took "the precaution of altering the time before retiring but, as usual, quite a number forgot to take off the 30 minutes, and experienced minor domestic trouble as a consequence. Commencing its journey to summer time, the Wellingtou-Auckland express, leaving at 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, completel its trip to standard time. The alteration of the official clocks on the train was mado at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, somewhere between Te Kuiti and Taumaranui. The time of departure from the last-mentioned place was 12.42 a.m. summer time and the arrival at To Kuiti was made at 2.9 standard time, the train running ha!f-an-hour earlier than the timetable schedule for the remainder of the journey.

• Lighting-up time is now 6.30 p-m. and it is almost completely dark before 7 o’clock.