SUMMER-TIME BILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 17

SUMMER-TIME BILL.

PROTEST FROM FARMERS. PRIMARY INDUSTRIES THREATENED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MARTON, July 16. There is a considerable feeling of anxiety among fanners over the prospects of the that has just been recorded in the House men on the land realise that daylight saving might be useful to sports enthusiasts but disastrous to the producers. Dairymen are obliged to start the day at an extremely early hour, and the advancement of the clock in the summer time by an hour will mean their commencing work at 2 or o o’clock. The Marton district farmers have registered their strong opposition by the following resolution: — “That in connection with tho decision that has just been recorded i the House of Representatives in favour of the passing of the Daylight Saving Bill, the Marton branch of the Farmers’ Union desires to emphasise the fact that the work of primary production in this Dominion is the one industry which is the most essential to its existence, and that the present drift of the population to the cities and large towns must in consequence bo viewed with the greatest alarm; that it is the opinion of this branch that the drift referred to is largely caused by the attractions which the large centres of population offer in the shape of pastimes, sports and pleasures, and it is, therefore, amazed at the action of legislators in passing a measure which can have no other effect out to accentuate a state of affairs that already calls for the serious consideration ' of all persons who have the welfare of the Dominion at heart. That the branch feels confident that the bringing into opera, tion of the proposed measure will cause greater hardships to both sexes of the farming community—the women folk in particular—and, discontent amongst farm workers generally, thus hampering still more the work of primary production which it is so necessary to foster and encaurage in every possible way.”