DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 86, 16 February 1912, Page 2

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

THE experiment of. moving the school day one hour forward is being tried at the local school. The children are assembled at 8.30 a.m. in lieu of 9.30. At 11.30 they are given one hour's intercession for lunch, and at 2.30 they are dismissed for the day. How far such procedure will suit local requirements remains to be seen, but we understand that the headmaster requests any parents whom the arrangement does not suit to aquainthimof the fact, when every possible consideration will be given by the committee to the communications. In the event of 8.30 not suiting, 9 o'clock may be tried, but we venture to state that if all lines of business, save perhaps that pertaining to cows, were started early, say 6 a.m. instead of 8, as now existing, Te Awamutu would be giving a lead to other places worthy of the following, and parents generally would find that their children, and they themselves would find the early opening at school so much in harmony with the whole routine of summer life that it would indeed seem as though Nature had reprimanded us and bidden us return to primitive Jife as led by our ancestors. The early rising would necessitate the inhalation of the sweet morning

air, which, in lieu of the stuffy, ofttimes ill -ventilated atmosphere of the modern child's bedroom, would prove a. God-send. Nature's roses would supplant the paleness so often painfully evident in the cheeks of our little ones. The early rising would necessarily be followed by early retiring, and then the adage handed down to us would prove its wisdom and the wiseness of those who composed it :

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.