HALF AN HOUR ONWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 793, 14 October 1929, Page 10

HALF AN HOUR ONWARD

SUMMER TIME IN OPERATION THE CHANGE-OVER With the majority of people the change occasioned by the introduction of summer-time during Saturday night passed by without inconvenience. That is to say, with those who wisely provided for the change-over by advancing their clocks half an hour before they retired on Saturday night. Despite the publicity given to the change and the warnings issued to advance clocks half an hour, many instances have come under notice where citizens have occasioned themselves a certain amount of inconvenience by their failure to observe the warning. Some little inconvenience was, of course, unavoidable. Such, for instance, as occurred in the household where three or four members of the family, arriving home at various times late in the night, took upon themselves tlie duty of advancing the clock. It is also surprising to note the number of people who admit having put their clock back half an hour under the impression that in so doing they were providing themselves with an extra half an hour of daylight for the morrow. Many discovered their mistake when they arrived late for church of missed a golf appointment. In one household at least, the story is told of the head of the house who retarded his bedroom clock by 30 minutes. A little later his daughter arrived home and advanced all the other clocks in the house. The question as to when breakfast should be served was only settled upon by calling up the telephone exchange, whose decision was accepted as final. Government departments set a good example by altering their clocks at the appointed time, but some of the clocks outside City buildings were still behind the times yesterday afternoon. The Alison Memorial Clock at the Devonport Wharf was advanced half an hour on Saturday evening, and a number of motorists who arrived at the wharf to connect with the last vehicular ferry were considerably perturbed to find that according to that clock they had missed the boat. There was considerable relief when the ferry arrived from the City in accordance with the usual timetable. One of the noticeable results of the alteration was the late arrival of the Main Trunk express yesterday. Leaving Wellington on Saturday afternoon the train arrived at Auckland at 7 o'clock yesterday morning instead of at half-past six, the official time having been altered en route. This, however, is only cue of the few isolated instances, time-tables will bq, run to the new time from today and no confusion need exist.