THE COOKIES’ CRY.
BY SINBAD. Oh! listen to the farmers in the House, as they discuss the Daylight Saving Bill. With one accord they register their grouse, declaring it will work the farmers ill. “It is a wicked enterprise,” say they, “by city propagandists engineered, to tack an hour on to the farmers’ day, that further time for pleasure may be cleared. The poor cow cookie works from dawn till dark to get his round of daily duties done, and it will be undoubtedly a nark if he must rise an hom before the sun. We think this daylight saving is a pest more hateful than the spreading bramble vine, and we its spread would rather far arrest than see the ragwort on our farms decline.” Thus speak the farming folk in folly high, whereas they ought to greet the scheme with joy. An extra hour of day it will supply that bramble and that ragwort to destroy.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18208, 15 July 1927, Page 1
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