SUMMER TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 10

SUMMER TIME.

APPROVED BY PARLIAMENT.

BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY. NO OPPOSITION OFFERED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Summer Time Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives without a division, had a smooth passage through the Legislative Council this afternoon. Summer time will begin next Sunday and be observed until the third Sunday in March. The clocks will be advanced half an hour. The Act will expire on September 30. 1929.

WELCOMED BY SPORTS BODIES,

Parliamentary decision to repeat the summer-time system, by advancing clocks half an hour, from October 14 to March 16, has been received with almost universal delight by city dwellers, who

had been keenly disappointed at the killing of Mr. Sidey'a measure for the advancement of the clock for one hour during the summer months. Appreciation of the extra half-hour of daylight thus made availaDle for use in the afternoons is especially marked among devotees of the organised sports of cricket, lawn tennis, bowling and yachting. "Tennis players, cricketers and bowlers are keenly grateful for the half-hour, which last year's experience will teach them to use to the best advantage in the daily exercise of their hobbies," declared a prominent member of the Sports Protection League, a body that has consistently supported the summer-time measure. Reviewing last year's experiment, when the clocks were advanced an hour, the same sportsman remarked that in bowling and lawn tennis the effect was to enable more members to make use of the available greens and courts for daily exercise, while on Saturday's the competitive fixtures were completed without difficulty. Cricketers also benefited by having more time for practice. People who catered for evening amusement, however, experienced loss of patronage, despite efforts to meet the changed conditions by later programmes. While the younger folk would prefer a full extra hour for sport, it was quite possible that the compromise or half-an-hour would prove more satisfactory all round.