HALF AN HOUR

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10959, 6 October 1928, Page 5

HALF AN HOUR

SUMMER TIME BILL PASSED BY HOUSE. New Zealand, after all, will have a measure of summertime, tlie Government having decided to accept the recommendation of the Select Committee on the Summer Time (Local Empowering) Bill that the clocks ■should be advanced half an hour from the second Sunday in October to tlie third Sunday in March. A Bill to give effect, to the recommendation was introduced, into the House of Representatives last night by Governor-General’s message, and it provides for the scheme having a trial for one year. It contains the same clauses as the measure of last year with regard to shearing and harvesting operations being conducted by reference to standard time. ALL NIGHT SITTING. WELLINGTON, This Day. After the telegraph office closed this morning the Railway Amendment Bill, Electric Power Board’s Amendment, and Summertime Bill (JSo 2), were read a third time and passed. The Prime Minister moved the second reading of tli e Auckland Transport Bill to vest the regulation of transport in metropolitan "and suburban areas in a board, nominated at first, but confirmed a$ a result of a subsequent election. In 1931 the board would b© purely elective, and by that time it was hoped the people of Auckland would have made up their minds as to what system o“ transport was best for their city and that the Bill would lead to solution ef Auckland’s transport problem Tli© Bill was read a second time and passed through the committee stag© without amendment. It was read a third time and passed without discussion. The House rose at 2.40 till 11 a.m.