Saving Daylight.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 13, 28 March 1908, Page 13

Saving Daylight.

The Daylight Saving Bill is the simple title of the ingenious measure introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. Robert Pearce, M.P. for the Leek Division of Staffordshire, which it is hoped will add 210 hours to the working year, or nearly two years to an average man’s life. Saving daylight by a parliamentary bill sounds somewhat like extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, but to Mr. Pearce it is a very simple matter. He propose* to put on the clock twenty minutes between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on each of the first four Sundays in April and to put back the clock twenty minutes during the first four Sundays in September.

By Mr. Pearce’s computation this pleasant little practice will give everyone 210 hours more daylight every year. Workmen wilt thus be freed from their toil twenty minutes earlier in the summer evenings, and have this much more daylight at their disposal.