SUMMER BILL POSTPONED

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1927, Page 6

SUMMER BILL POSTPONED

OBJECTIONS FROM FARMERS A COMPROMISE SUGGESTED. INVESTIGATIONS TO BE MADE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. As the result of a conference with regard to the Summer Time Bill between the Prime Minister, Air. T. K. Sidey, the author of the measure, and Air. W. S. Glenn (Rangitikei), organiser of the opposition to it, in the House of Representatives, further consideration of the bill has been deferred for a fortnight. In the meantime the parties concerned will make further endeavours to arrange a compromise to meet the objections of dairy farmers and others who claim that the advancing of the hands of the dock by one hour during the summer t onths will detrimentally affect their operations.

Information is to be gathered from dairy factory managers, ercam carters, and others with a view to ascertaining in what respects it will be necessary to have the railway time-table i amended to meet the requirements of the dairying community, and it is hoped that when this information is obtained,’ the Railway Department may be- able to’seeits way to adjust the time-tables so that the oppositionists may be appeased and their obstruction to the Bill withdrawn.

It is gathered that, failing such a compromise being reached, the opponents of the Bill are prepared to fight on and hold the measure up as long as possible as an earnest of their solicitude for the farmer in the disabilities they contend he will suffer if daylight saving is brought into effect.