SUMMER-TIME BILL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3775, 20 July 1926, Page 33

SUMMER-TIME BILL.

PROTEST FROM FARMERS. MARTON, July 16. There is a considerable feeling of anxiety among faimers over the prospects of the that has just been recorded in the Hoc&e men on th. land realise that daylight sav ing 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 3 o’clock. The Marton district farmers have registered their strong op position by the following resolution : “That in connection with the decision that has just been recorded i the House of representatives in favoUT of the pass ing of the Daylight Saving Bill, the Mar ton branch of the Farmers’ Union desires to emphasise the fact that the work cf 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 be 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 shaoe of pastimes, sports and pleasures, and It is, therefore, amazed the action cf legislators in passing a measure which can have no otl er effect nut to accentuate a state of affairs that aireadv 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 s*ill more the work of primary production which it is so necessary to fester and encaurage in every possible way.”