DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17077, 14 April 1927, Page 11

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

HAS ENTHUSIASM WANED?

NEED FOR ARTICULATION.

(Times' Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday

It was announced here yesterday that the secretary of the Post Office had received messages stating that the legal time in Belgium had been advanced for the summer season by one hour at midnight on April 0-10; in Spain by one hour at 11 p.m. on April ; 9; in France by on'e hour at 11 p.m. on April 9, and in Great Britain by one hour at 2 a.m. on April 10.

The announcement has reminded the local advocates of "daylight saving" in this country that they must be up and doing if they are to obtain any concession of the same kind during the approaching session of Parliament. Those farmers who are opposed to "tampering with the clock," as one of them put it the other day, have been passing resolutions on the subject and forwarding them to the Government for several months past, and unless some interest is displayed on the other side Ministers may asume that the enthusiasm of the daylight savers has evaporated. As a matter of fact among city employees .the demand for the reform is more insistent to-day than it ever has been before, and there-is little doubt that a wellorganised campaign in the rural districts would insure the Dominion following in the footsteps of the Mother Country in the regulation of the clock.