DAYLIGHT SAVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 12

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Sir, —With regard to the effect of daylight saving, here are three points for consideration. Stock sales: These are already held as early in the day as is practicable for the assembling 'of the stock, and in many cases depend on the railways for transport of stock. The auctioneers and big buyers also come by train and, for their convenience, special arrangements, as stopping at flag-stations, have been evolved, so that the sales must conform with the altered time, during a period when an especially large anjount of young stock is being handled. Dairy factories: These depend on the railways' for transport of materials, and, in some cases, workers. They must keep step too, or divert their work to motor-lorries. At present, dairy farmers start as early as possible in the morning, and as late as possible in the afternoons, when heat and flies have abated, and the cream will cool quicker. Schools: Most country children leave home by 8.30 a.m. and some by 8 a.m. This means that by *7.30 a.m. the mother must prepare breakfast and lunches and supervise the toilets of several small children. If this is to be 6.30 a.m., and, in addition, the mother has a baby to nurse, fowls and chickens to attend to, and, in all too many cases, cows to milk, well, is this no hardship? The small children would leave school at 2 p.m. to walk or ride home in the hottest part of the day. This objection has often been raised in connection with early closing of schools in February. Now, all this is a quite needless imposition on country people, who already practise daylight saving. May I suggest that "A.C." and his friends form "Early Morning" clubs, rise with the lark, walk a mile or two to the playing fields, and have two hours of good fun before preparing for business at 9 a.m. This is especially applicable to schoolboys living in Auckland, and would go far toward solving the problem of extra playing fields, which is so serious a matter with the smaller clubs at present. Dairy Farmer's Wife.