STANDARD TIME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 265, 9 November 1945, Page 4

STANDARD TIME

BILL PASSES HOUSE (P.A.) Parliament Bldgs. Nov. 7. Speaking in the House of Representatives to-night to the Standard Time Bill, which provides for a half-hour of daylight saving throughout the year, and operates from January 1 next, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, said it revived the memory of one who put up a great fight for a similar Bill--the late Sir Thomas Sidey. Mr. Parry said he had not received a single protest aginst the Bill, and this seemed to indicate a unanimous desire for the Bill, which was, he considered, a good thing for the country. The Leader of the Opposition, Ir. Holland, said the passage of this Bill recalled the controversy over daylight saving. Now a compromise had been reached, which benefited most people, although there were some disadvant-i ages for farmers miners and others. Tn those days of radio communications it was a good thing that our time for most of the year would be 12 hours ahead of G.M.T. New Zealand people would have more daylight at the end of the dav and that was a good thing. The Bill was passed.