DAYLIGHT SAVING.
Sir, —Why not let the clock stay as it is ? If people want to get up early, let fhern get up, but there should bo no interfering with the liberty of the subject. Peoplo with nerves, the present-day complaint, will be glad of the extra half-hour in bed in the morning, and glad of the. early shade of the evening when the children arc in off the streets and there is peace and quietness. Also, they will be glad to walk to church on Sunday evening in the twilight after a hot day. People make too much of the sun, which, like everything else, is all right in its place. Cats lie in the sun all day, but they have no mind to control, and mind comes beforo matter.' There is little leisure in life: it is too much rush; why try and make it more so by interfering with the clock ? Legislation on the subject is oppression to some people, and oppression is bad. This is "God's own country." Why spoil it by legislating time by the clock? The thousands who crowd the parks in the Old Country have probably never seen the sea, and old Sol means more to those who live in crowded areas than in this land, where there is plenty of room and to spare, Tempo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 14
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