SUMMER TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7

SUMMER TIME.

REFORM PARTY DIVIDED.

ONE EYE ON THE ELECTION. SM/VT.T. MAJORITY POSSIBLE. NOT A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. 'By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. One of the matters discussed at the caucus of the Government members this morning was daylight saving. There is a division of opinion among members on the proposal of the Select Committee, that a compromise measure should be passed, giving a half-hour of summer time from the second Sunday in October till the third Sunday in March, but the opinion in the lobbies is - that this could be carried by a small majority, in view of the feeling that candidates facing town electors will meet difficulty if the Government is saddled with the responsibility of turning down the proposal. One section of members, opposed to actual summer time, favours a general advance of half-an-hour throughout the year. This would result in difficulties, which are greater in southern latitudes as at Invercargill, in mid-winter, an advanced standard time would mean sunrise at 8.37 on the shortest day. There is a chance for summer time this session, but' it cannot be regarded as a foregone conclusion.