"KING CANUTE AND SUMMER TIME”

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 2

"KING CANUTE AND SUMMER TIME”

FARMERS’ UNION TWITTED. The decision of the president of the South Taranaki executive of the Farmers’ Union not "to put his watch on” when daylight-saving comes into force, hag brought forth the following comment from, a Dunedin paper: “They talk about old King Canute, who tried to stop the rising tide, but fellows equally acute may even in these days be spied; for Fanners’ Union heads are found in Taranaki’s rainy clime, who scorn to turn their watches round to bring them up to summer-time. "It is a thing, unjust,” they say, "that Sidey’e foisted on the land, and though we nobly fought the day, too numerous was Sidey’s band. But we our rural spirits low, when fate her arrows starts to fling, shall we obey the statute? No, we’ll just ignore the whole darn thing. Our watches we will leave unturned, though all the world moves- on an hour, so Sidey shortly will have learned, the splendour of the farmers’ power. A gallant gesture, I’ll be bound, but yet is their resistance vain, for rather puzzled they’ll be found when they set out to catch a train.”