DAYLIGHT SAVING.
NOVEL SYDNEY SCHEME. DAILY ALTERATION OF .CLOCKS, [most Ol'H OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY, Nov. 13. In tho .course of tho war period th» New South Wales Parliament passed a Daylight Saving Act, and gave the coinniunity another hour of summer daylight. Tho Act was repealed by the Governrueul which succeeded it.
An ingenious means of again reverting to daylight saving, without the laby rinthic processes of Parliament, and without the public boing conscious of iho reform by summarily and suddenly ad vancing all, clocks one hour, has now been suggested in Sydney. The proposal IJ that all public clocks, such as at tli» GP 0 and on the railways and tram ways, should lie advanced just two or three minutes a day according 0 ' rising of I lie sun And. hey presto, y tho time Sydney was in mid-sum - . would be ending its work at 4 QJ . o'clock in tlio afternoon, four hours of daylight left
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20112, 24 November 1928, Page 13
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184DAYLIGHT SAVING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20112, 24 November 1928, Page 13
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