APPROVAL OF HOUSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19743, 16 September 1927, Page 12

APPROVAL OF HOUSE.

THIRD READING CARRIED.

ANOTHER LONG DEBATE. OPERATION OF PROPOSAL. NOVEMBER-MARCH PERIOD. fBY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. Another long debate marked the third reading of the Summei Time Bill The discussion was commenced at 7.30 p.m. and was continued until 12.40 a.m., when the third reading was carried by 29 votes to 14, and the bill was passed. The debate was commenced by Mr. Glenn, who reiterated his opposition to the bill owing to its ill-effect on the farming industry. Mr C. E Macmillan (Taurangai registered his opposition to the bill on the ground that it was detrimental to the interests of the back-block farmers, who should be assured of compensation in some form. Mr. A. V M. Samuel (Ohinemuri) protested against the bill as a thing prejudicial to the hardest-working section of the community. Sir Joseph Ward ( Invercargill) pointed out that all the votes on the bill had been two to one in its favour. Members from raranaki, one of the chief farming portions of the Dominion, favoured the bill. England, France, Belgium and Italyhad adopted daylight-saving Acts and had kept them on since wartime, and they would not have done this if it was detri mental to the farmars of those countries. The Minister of Lands, Hon A. D. McLeod, said he would vote against the bill because he knew his constituents would suffer serious inconvenience from it. Practically every branch of the Farmers' Union throughout the Dominion had passed resolutions condemning the. bill Shortly after midnight Mr. Sidey rose to reply. He said he was doing so under circumstances of greater hope of summer time becoming the law of the country. Discussion had mainly circled round hardship to farmers, but he was confident that when the railways had adapted their service to the people and when the people had adapted themselves to the new circumstances, very little hardship would occur. He thanked the Prime Minister for "playing the game" in connection with the bill. He promised to give it a fair run and he kept his word. He also thanked the Leader of the Opposition and Mr. M. J. Savage for postponing their bills in order to enable his to come on. That was generous conduct toward one who was not a member of the Labour Party, particularly as their action was voluntary. The division was then taken as follows : Ayes—29. Armstrong. Luke. At more. Mssoiij H. 6. R Bart ram. Mason, J. Bell. Nash Bellringer. Nos worthy. Buddo Potter Dickie liolleston, F. J. Dickson, J. S Savage Forsyth Sidey Fraser. Wake Girling. Walter Harris. Ward Holland. H. Wright Howard. Young Kyle. Noes —14. Bitchener Hockly Coates Hunter Dickson, J. Mc. Linklater Eliott Pomare Field Rolleston, J. C. Glenn Samuel Hawken Williams Pairs.—For the Bill: Horn, Ransoiri, McCombs, Seddon, Tatley, Smith. Sullivan, Parry. J. A. Lee, Jordan, Stewart. Against the bill: Rhodes, Burnett. Lysnar. W. Jones, Hudson, Anderson, McLeod D. Jones, Uru, Reed. Macmillan. Although the bill has been approved by the Ilonse it mast be passed by the Legislative Council before it will become law. The operative clauses of the bill provide that in the period of summertime New Zealand maan-time shall be one hour in advance of standard time, and that for this purpose the period cf summer-time shall begin at 2 a.m on the first Sundav in November, when the '-locks will be advanced one hour, and end on the first Sunday in March, when they will bo put back one hour.