DAYLIGHT SAVING.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—As a supporter of this measure and realising how it affects a district such as your paper represents, may I be permitted to remind certain opponents that this is not a “winter time” scheme, as some are inclined to assume. Taking a day in mid-winter and mid-summer there is, I contend, a difference of three hours’ daylight from (say) 4 a.m. in summer and 7 a.m. in winter. Therefore if all through the ages Hie farming community have experienced no undue inconvenience from this variation, how can anyone justify this argument of the Bill compelling them to work in the dark when only applied in summer? I regret, sir, to have to say that there are far too many faultfinders and grumblers on the land to-day.—l am, etc., ARTHUR CUMMINGS. Middlemore, Auckland, Oct. 5.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The Impression is abroad that daylight saving is to be operative from Sunday next, but so far the Bill has not been before the House for its second reading. Are not the supporters of the measure taking a lot for granted in making preparations for the ■operation of the Act? It is not by any means a certainty that the House of Representatives will endorse the measure, which farmers assert will impose a hardship upon them. —I am, etc., SURETY.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 9
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223DAYLIGHT SAVING. Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 9
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