DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15389, 26 August 1913, Page 8

DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL

— ♦ ' ■ ■'- RECOMMENDED TO PREMIER,!.; ME. MASSEY'S ATTITUDE^ WANTS MOBE INFORMATION [by telegraph.—press association.] r - Weijjngton, Monday. 1 Eeplying to «a deputation which urged - him to afford "facilities, to Sir. T. K. Sidey" \ to get his Bill for putting on the clock 1 an hour in summer passed this session, the Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey)' 1 said he .' thought the deputation would B acknowledge that he, as head of the Gov- ; g .eminent, had not only to look at it from 9 the point of view of the head of the Gov- | eminent, but from the point of view of. | the Dominion as a whole, from the point I of view of oar primary industries, the I 8000 or 10,000 people employed on the M railways, and especially in regard to our relations with other countries. One of the M vital objections that, people would never | put up with was the friction and incon- 1 venience that would result from putting ". >v the clock forward during one period of the ~\ year and putting it back during another period. \ ' ■' "If you are going to make a change v,, it will have to be a change that will stand all the year round,' '■ he said. "I wanted to give you an opportunity of showing ; my any country where your proposed system is in operation. I know it has been tried in some of the States of Canada, -. and was successful in one or two places,- . but I wanted some more information on. . the point." A few years ago, he continued, South'|J Australia "put the clock forward half-an- M hour, and, as far as he could ascertain, it-;;,' worked very well indeed. If that was i ■ so such a scheme might work very well; here, but they had to regard it not only - from the point of view of the milkman.' or anybody else. In many sawmills they' < put the clock forward an hour in the sum-;. .Z mer months, but there were many industries that; had to be considered. There was the agricultural industry for instance. It might be very awkward toput the clock forward during the weeks ; of harvest because they could not oom-. J , mence harvesting operations until the sun , ~ had been shining for a certain time so as - to dry the grain. The same remark apt- t plied to sheep-shearing. If it were possible for the deputation's ", proposals to i q,: apply only to the cities he thought ; it' -1 might work very well indeed, but unless wk they made; it apply all round he thought. the proposal fatal. He did not think that : .; the proposal to alter the tiros twice a year would work in this or any other coun- ,-',- try. He wanted to look.into the position ' in regard to South Australia. It wasv*-"' quite possible that the. clock might be put', -- forward half-an-hour in New Zealand, bbt&jp| it was not: a proposal in regard to - which.;.-; they could make'rash experiments. It'.v' : ,- would have to be looked into, very ; thor-',. ; y oughly from every possible point of viewaHffl : Finally, he said/he. would be glad to ' put the proposals of the - c deputation before the Cabinet, but he expressed doubt whether, lacking information a' to the' working of such 'a , scheme, the Cabinet ; would give r the ? subject any degree of sup- *»*• ! "