PUT ON THE CLOCK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 10

PUT ON THE CLOCK.

MR, SIDEY’S SUMMER-TIME BILL. ASSURED OF FAIR SPIN. (Per Press Association t WELLINGTON, last night. A deputation which it was claimed represented nil sections of the community waited on" the Premier to make a plea for a- fair spin for Mr. T. K. Sidey’s Summer-time Bill, which will bo before the House this evening. Replying, Mr. Coates said that ho one could but he impressed with the size and quality of the' deputation. All the arguments that had been adduced would be heard again when tlie Bill was under discussion. Personally, lie would vote against the Bill. Ho Imd no reason to take any other action than to vote as he thought fit.' It was a non-party measure, and he had not known the Government to take any other attitude ill regard to it- Members of the House could vote upon it as they thought fit. They could be assured that Mr. Sidey would get a fair spin so far as lie was concerned. Mr. Johnstone had referred to the fanners’ side of (lie case, said Mr. Coates, but there was a lot more to be said about that. If Parliament wanted the.Bill they would get it. Although personally lie did nut agree with the principle, lie had no other interest in ii. So far as the fanners were concerned, nine-tenths of them already worked an hour ahead of the clock. Then, again, as to trains, if the time was advanced the railways would have to comply in the same way as everything else. If the country wanted summer-time they could have if, ami the railways would fall into line. They were after business all the time. A member of the deputation interjected that the Department probably would gel more business out of the change. “The Bill will get. a run. and a fair run,” Mr. Coates assured the deputation. Parliament- could deal with if on its merits, and the rest was only a matter of machinery. A majority decision in the House would decide