THE SUMMER-TIME BILL
EFFECT ON RURAL SCHOOLS AUCKLAND FARMERS PROTEST. HOURS MAY BE AMENDED. (By Wire—Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. Schools may get over the provisions of the Summer Time Bill by opening an hour later next month. The starting hour of school in the summer months was left to the discretion of each individual committee by the Auckland Education Board to-day, provided time was not more than one hour different from the old time. The Matamata Junior High School and the Hukerenui School Committee applied for permission to start at 9.30 a.m. when the Daylight Saving Act came into force, while a deputation from the Auckland Farmers’ Union asked that the schools should start at the old time.
Mr. Feist said that tho legislation would be of special disadvantage to those farmers whose wives and children ivere compelled by economic circumstances to go into the cowsheds. It was essential that some concession should be made to them.
Mr. H. S. W. King considered that children would have to get up an hour earlier and that they would not get to bed until the old time. Mr. Feist said that more children were in cowsheds before 5.30 a.m. than after 0 a.m. under present conditions. “Its the law of tho land and it will have to be given a fair trial or we will get chaos,” said Mr. F, A. Snell. Mr. Feist declared that although the farmer would be compelled to rise an hour earlier under the Act he would not get through his work any sooner. "We are not pressing for a small section,” said Mr. Feist. “This feeling is very general, and we look to the Education Board to alleviate the difficulty.” Mr. Ba>isS outlined the dairy farmers* day from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m. His bueieoy time was from daylight until 9 a.m. Milking would not be begun any earlier in the afternoon because the heat and flies before 4 p.m. prevented the maximum yield from his cows. It was decided that all school committees should have permission to fix the time of starting school in the summer months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1927, Page 9
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354THE SUMMER-TIME BILL Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1927, Page 9
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