SUMMER-TIME ACT.
PASSING ASSURED. BILL FROM UPPER HOUSE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Aug. 14. New Zealand is practically assured of another summer of daylight saving. It was announced by the Prime Minister yiderday afternoon ' that the Hon. T. K. Sidey, AttorneyGeneral, the indefatigable champion of daylight saving and author of the first Summer Time Act passed in 1927. had been authorised by his colleagues to introduce a bill in the Legislative Council providing for an advance of the clock by thirty minute); during the coining summer. It may be taken for granted that the Legislative Council will pass the bill and as it will have Government support its success in the “Howe of Representatives is assured.
"Whether or not anything will be done this session to make the halfhour advance a permanent summer feature is not revealed, but lobby opinion inclines to the view that such will be the case, the trial of last year having proved generally acceptable.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17663, 14 August 1929, Page 4
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