DAYLIGHT SAVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20621, 21 July 1930, Page 12

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Sir, —I wish to enter my protest against ! the clock being advanced an hour. One correspondent stated that the clock should bo advanced because Sir Thomas Sidey spent twenty years in Parliament trying for it. What a poor argument! It is not a credit to any man to spend so many years of his life in placing a great hardship on the people of New Zealand and especially the hard-working farmers. Correct Time. Sir, —The alteration of Clocks docs not suit any one in the country, either in business or on farms. None of them wastes one moment of daylight, therefore there is none to save. There is no occasion for any alteration of clocks if those who desire to see a little more daylight will follow theso simple instructions: —Rise at 4 a.m., allow one hour for toilet and refreshment, two hours for gardening, sport, etc., one hour for breakfast, and arrive at work. Work till five p.m., then gardening, sport, etc., till 8 p.m., and I don't think anyone will have causo to complain of wasted daylight. By doing this all daylight will bo utilised, all .appetites improved, increased sales of groceries, milk, butter, etc. It surely docs not require an Act of Parliament lo compel some people to rise in time to see what daylight is given to us or to njc a little more of it than at present. NO ShCCGAP.I). Sir, —Having had several years' existence as the wife of one of those "poor old cookies" 1 feel I may speak with confidence on this subject. We considered tho one hour daylight saving one of tlie greatest boons conferred on the community. We milked 72 cows, my husband and man rising at 4.15 a.m. Cows were milked, calves and pigs fed and cream sledged a quarter of a mile by 8.15 a.m. Cows were again got in at 3.45 p.m., and all work finished by 7 p.m , thus enabling my husband, self and man one hour's daylight for recreation, cither gardening or swimming, the latter being a pastime that everyone should indulge in if the facilities are handy. 1 conteud that no matter how mucli work there has to be done on a farm one hcur out of 17 for recreation is well spent, and usually saves doctor's bills. Cockics will always growl anyhow, so daylight saving is as good as anything else." Here's good luck from one growling old cockie's wife for the one hour or daylight saving. v A Cockie's Better Half.

Sir, —May I beg a little space in which to set forth a special plea regarding above subject. I refer to the effect daylight saving has on country children, especially tho younger ones, who have varying distances to ride to school. To such children, this measure brings great hardships and subjects them to a great strain. To quote my own case, I have a little girl, just eight years of age, who has to ride 3| miles* to the nearest school. As school commences at 9 a.m. she must leave home at 8 a.m. or thereabouts at this time of the year. If the clocks during summer are advanced a whole hour, as suggested by some, it means that she must leave at 7 a.m. ordinary time. This also means that instead of arriving home about 4 p.m., she does so at 3, which, as everyone knows, is, in summer time, the \ery hottest part of the day. I wonder how many town advocates of davlight saving would care for a ride on a slow horse in the greatest heat of an ordinary hot day. Last year, although the clocks were advanced only half an hour, my little girl has arrived homo almost exhausted and she is perhaps a good deal stronger and healthier (ban the average child. Next month my little five-year-old daughter is due to" start school and just imagine a mother's feelings at having to turn a child of that age away at 7 a.m. It" such a state of things was imperative and served some very useful purpose we should be fairly content to make the best of it, but when we consider that it is just in order that a. minority of town people may get in a little extra pleasure and sport, it seems almost barbarous. Once more (ho poor country child has in suffer. In quoting my own case, I am stating only a comparatively mild case, as hundreds of country children, perhaps, have to ride much greater distances. Surely daylight saving advocates will have more feeling than to press such a matter. A Couxtov Mother.