SUMMER TIME
STARTS TO-MORROW
CLOCKS TO BE ADVANCED
Summer time start.", in New Zealand to-morrow and the official time for the half-hour advancement of clocks is 2 a.m. Official clocks will be advanced strictly to time, but in most cases householders will make the alteration before retiring on Saturday night. Although tlie days are drawing out now and it is not dusk until 6 p.m., the extra half-hour in the evening will be greatly appreciated, as workers will find themselves arriving home with time for a little recreation before or after the evening meal.
Daylight saving, as it is popularly known, has been in operation 'in New Zealand since 1927, when the late Sir Thomas Sidey introduced an Act which provided for the advancing of standard time by one hour from 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November. This was reduced later to half an hour from the second Sunday! in October. By an amendment passed in 1933 the period of summer time was permanently fixed to begin on the last. Sunday in September and to end on the last Sunday in April.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 4
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184SUMMER TIME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 4
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