DAYLIGHT SAVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 14

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Sir, —'All reforms throughout history have been opposed by a small noisy minority, but have como about all the same. An hour of daylight saving has been the law of England for many years. If a poll were taken in New Zealand, of all adults of 21 years and over, we know there would be an overwhelming majority in favour of daylight saving. Sunshine. Sir, —I am glad to see a cocky's wife, Mrs. Muddy Boots, has taken up tho cudgels on this subject. Why should the sports be the only ones considered in regard to daylight saving. Let us see more of these self-styled sports uphold the old traditions of sports and sportsmanship, and give tho farmers, their wives andi children a sporting chance of getting up and working in daylight. Live and Let Live. Sir, —The power shortage has been made a lever for the reinstatement of the full hour of daylight saving. This would mean that farmers milking herds of any size would need to rise, muster their cows and begin milking considerably before daylight, say 3.30 to 4 a.m. standard time. It would do Mr. Sidey and other city reformers good to try it! As it is not practicable, especially as the season advances, to milk correspondingly early, in tho afternoon on account of the heat, the farmer's day is unduly lengthened, and shortly after finishing at night it is bed time by the daylight saving clock. Hence the farmer's family enjoy little or no home life in th& evening. Consider now tho operation of summer time in the towns as the season advances if the full hour again obtains. After the closing of the shops and offices, and a hurried tea, J people crowd away to tho playing fields ; or the beaches, and, it being daylight till 9 p.m. in summer by the falsified clock, sport will continue till dark; and after folk returning home bv, say, 9.30. the time is past for any enjoyment of evening home life, and they go to bed. Thus the home intercourse which should be tho charm and blessing of family life is largely destroyed, and home becomes merely a place in which to eat and sleep. " Evil is wrought bv want of thought as well as want of heart," and the wellintentioned summertime reformers are perhaps unwittingly defiling a blow at a vital interest in'the people's life. Tersely summarised, daylight saving means, in the towns, more sport and less homo life; in the country, more work and less home lif,, ' ITen'p.v Hook. I'aparoa.