DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

The Gisborne Chamber of Commerce has written to the Prime Minister, urging upon him the desirability of bringing forward this session as a Government measure a Bill for tho universal adoptiotf cf daylight saving by putting the clock, forward an hour during the months. The chamber points out that Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., has for years endeavoured to have his private Daylight-saving Bill placed on tho Statute Book, but for one reason or another it has been shelved from time to time. Daylight saving was introduced in England during the Groat War as a war measure, and it is represented that so successful were its operations that the people clamoured for its retention, with the result that it has become an established custom. All the merchants and warehousemen in Gisborne commence business at 8.30 a.m. and close their premises at 4.30 daily. Tho employers and employees would not on any account go back to the old order of things, so successful has the change been. The Gisborne Chamber submits that there is an earnest desire by a large majority of the electors in New Zealand for this reform, and trusts that Mr Massey will give the project his favourable consideration.