DAYLIGHT SAVING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16628, 23 April 1928, Page 7

DAYLIGHT SAVING

FRUITGROWERS' SUPPORT TWO TO ONE MAJORITY (Special to the Herald.) OMRISTCHURCH, this dayi By 20 votes to 10 the Canterbury Tomato and Stone Fruit Growers' Association on -Saturday evening declined to support a remit opposing daylight saving. . , Mr. O. J. Fineran, the president, supported the remit. Ho said that under daylight saving men could 'not start work till 9 a.m., and an hour wyis thus , lost. If people in offices wanted it let them start work an hour earlier. Mr. Q. B. Pope said, daylight saving was an advantage to glasshouse growers. From that porm) of view it was one of the finest things ever brought in.' Mr! W. Bucktin declared that diaylight 'Saving was an interference with nature, and an interference with health He considered it was detrimental to fruitgrowers as far as their health was concerned. Under daylight saving the ! fruitgrower got up in the morning as if he had been drunk for a week. ' ■ ''We are working in with nature as ,ifc is," declared another speaker, who 'supported daylight saving. "It was a ' . boon to me to v be forced to get up early in the morning." Ml'. J. E. Holland said that at present they started work in the winter half an "hour after the sun had risen, and.worked for half an hour after the sun had set. What was needed was that the clocks should be. put forward half an hour and left there all the year. He ridiculed the suggestion that daylight, saving, affected the yield of cows. He challenged anyone to say that he was not logical in advocating that the clock be put-forward half, an hour and, left there right round the year. _ ■Mr. Fineran' expressed the view that a ' referendum should be taken on the sub- «■ jeefc ' ~.',, \<; They motion -opposing daylight saving f was lost. : ■ '; : .5» . ; : ~~~< '.._