DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 7

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

PAHIATUA FARMERS OPPOSED. There was a remarkable. unanimity of opinion when the remit, "That the Summertime Bill be not placed on the Statute Book,” came up for discussion at the executive meeting of the Pahiatua Central Branch of the Farmers’ Union, held on Saturday. Mr. J. H. Bremner said that the dairy farmers right throughout New Zealand were opposed to it. It had the effect of attracting the people from the country to the allurement of the cities, by making the conditions more pleasant and favourable. Mr. F. E. Ward remarked that ho had experiences of it both in England and Ireland, and frqm a farmer’s point of view it was an utter failure. Mr. H. Cotter ventured the opinion that as far as the sheep men were concerned it made little difference, but he was quite satisfied that on the whole it was against the interests of the general farming community. Mr. G. F. Hoggard had the temerity to observe that when he was in England the daylight saving measure appeared to work very favourably, but seeing the hostile glint in Mr. Bremner’s eye, and the gathering darkness on the faces of the other members, he deemed it wise, fearing a violent upheaval to diplomatically add, with a beaming smile, “but I wasn’t milking then!” The gloom immediately disappeared, and the sun shone once more.