DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 8

DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN

PARLIAMENT PASSES ACT. OPERATION NEXT SUNDAY. ADVANCE OF HALErAN-HOUR. TRIAL FOR ANOTHER SUMMER. [jlY TELEGRAPH.— SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON. Sunday. Clocks in New Zealand are to be advanced half-an-hour next Sunday morning, Parliament having passed an Act to give summertime a trial for another © summer. The decision to advance the clocks for half-an-hour, instead of an hour, as was the case last summer, was made on the recommendation of the Select Committee to which the Local Summertime Bill was referred. The manifold difficulties confronting the adoption of summertime in some places and the adherence to standard time in others led tho committee to recommend that the Local Summertime Bill should not be allowed to proceed. Instead, it suggested that the Government should sponsor a scheme to advance tho clock for half-an-hour. Careful consideration was given to the suggestion, and at a caucus of tho Government Party on Friday it was decided to give effect to tho recommendation. Some of the members who had been consistent in their opposition to summertime persisted in their views, but they were overwhelmed by those who thought that the advancing of tho clocks for half an hour would not seriously affect the farmers in shearing and harvesting operations. For those operations, standard time is to bo observed, unless the employers and employees concerned agree to adopt summertime. There was a short debate on the measure when it was introduced in the House of Representatives on Friday night, but it had a smooth passage through its remaining stages when it was brought forward again early yesterday morning. The bill was submitted to tho Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, and passed. Summertime is to end on tho third Sunday in March, and, unless Parliament reaffirms it next session, the Act will expire on September 50, 1929. BRITISH SUMMER TIME. CONCLUSION YESTERDAY. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, Oct. 5. Summer time in Britain will come to an end on Sunday. Introduced in 1916, and continued with variations until 1925, summertime was made permanent m Great Britain and Northern Ireland by legislation passed in the latter year. It operates from the morning following the third Saturday in April—or if that is Easter Day, the day following the second Saturday—when clock time is advanced one hour, until the day following the first Saturday in October.