DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 7

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

EFFECT ON COST OF LIVING LOCAL BODIES’ STRONG SUPPORT. (Per United Press Associations WELLINGTON. April 10. Advice has been received by those advocating daylight saving that during the past fortnight another 22 local bodies and other organisations have passed.resolutions in favour of the adoption of summer time daylight saving, making a total of 97 bodies which have expressed their approval during the last few weeks. There is an impression in the minds of many that the proposal is only for, the purpose of increasing the facilities for out loor amusements, but it is pointed out that its adoption at Uorne and on the Continent was brought about mainly on economical grounds, and that it lias proved a con- I siderable factor in materially reducing one of the items in the present high cost of living. In this respect everyone heneflts, farmers and city people alike, as on a rough average one may say that artificial I lighting comes into use in the summer months about 7.30 p.m., and on the same rough average is put out at 10.30 p.m. Standard time by summer-time clocks being an hour fast, the light will not be needed until 8.30, but extinguishing time will be 10.30 bl the clock. Thus at one stroke the average householder’s lighting bill is reduced by one-third. Daylight saving is a direct and by no means trifling elenient in the reduction o£ the cost oi living to the individual.