FARMER AND SUMMER TIME
OBSTINACY CARRIED TO EXTREME (United Press Association) HAWER-A, This Day The South Taranaki Farmers’ Union executive which resolved in October to ignore summer time, by meeting at iz instead of 11 o’clock, met for the first time under the new time-table ycsteidav and decided to rescind the resomtiO'iT’nnd meet at 11 o’clock in tho fuThe sponsor of the motion said that be could not agree, with Mr Sidey s theory, but it was less inconvenient to hold 'the meeting an hour earlier than, to substitute aftertfoon tea for luncheon. The president, Mr Hodge, voiced opposition. Though willing to agree with the-majority, personally lie declared : “I absolutely ignore Mr Sidev s time, and refuse to alter my clock, even for the Queen of England. A* jar as I am concerned, the meetings will stait at 10 o’el ocli.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 2
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