DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 13 October 1911, Page 3

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

BIG MEETING AT WELLINGTON. There was a large gathering at tlie down Hall, Wellington, on Monday night in support of ivlr T. IV. Sidey’s Daylight Saving Bill. Councillor J. Smith presided. Mr Smith said that Smith presided. In a brief allusion to the proposal, Mr Smith said that if wo rose earlier we would get more, sunshine than wb do now, and have more time for recreation in tho evenings. Air T. K .Sidey, M.P., moved: — ) “That this meeting of Wellington citizens heartily supports the Daylight Saving Bill, and considers it to he in the interests ol the health and the, general well-being ofj tlje people, and deserving of tlie support'or all clas- I ses of the community; and urges ’ the- Government to midke the Bill a Government measure, and have it passed into law as sooii as possible.” j ( Mr Sidey said that he was pleased to know the proposal had got so far as to call forth a meeting like this. Notwithstanding all the ridicule and the derision which had been heaped upon this proposal, it is now being recognised as a tiling which soon must go on the statute book. The proposal was that during the summer months the hours of beginning work should ho moved one hour nearer sunrise, so as to leave one hour more for recreation in the evening. It lug] boon objected that wo were deceiving ourselves by altering the clock . Mr Hudson, the man who first proposed this, was on the platform. (Applause.) Mr! Hudson was a .Now Zealand man, and he hoped that as a New Zealander had originated tho idea Now Zealand would he the first country to put it into effect. r Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.P., seconded the motion, which he called the “disease eradicatin'.” Ho, said ho was arguing a good case, for when a mil that could go before a committee of Parliament and come through severe criticism unscathed it was hardly for laymen to object to it. Tho chairman thou put the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr (J. H. Poole, M.P., moved—“'i hat a permanent committee should he set up to further the

objects ot t! 10 Foregoing resolu- ■ tion by every means in their power, such committee to consist ot the conveners of this meeting, together with the speakers at the meeting, with power to add to . their number.” Mr A. L. Herdman, M.P., seconded. tie said that once he had regarded the proposal as a hare-brained .'.clieme, hot he now believed it would rot alt cot business. lie was a groat believer in sunshine, which made .for health and' happiness. If wo had more ol it wo would be leading a more n atural life. Messrs J. P. Firth, and R. A.

Wright, .M.P., also supported the proposition. The motion was carried amidst applause. A vote was passed thanking' Mr Si dry for in’s efforts in the interests of the scheme.