HOURS AND OURS
Sir —I note in the BEACON 1 that the accepted time for out-door gatherings, in Whakatane is 2 p.m.— e.g. for funerals and memorial ser-. vices. This is all right for some, but not for pthers. Out on the Plains where milk is collected ? for cheese people really do have to start milking at 2.30 p.m., because the milk lorry is at their gates at 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. This is daylight saving With a vengeance. i I suggest that the local of Commerce get busy and save electric light by making all the rest of the district keep the same hours as the milk producers, namely: Get up at 4 a.m. (dawn), go to bed at 8 p.m. (end of daylight). That would be a saving of three or four hours. What about the shops opening at 6 a.m. and closing at 2 p;m. (when the real farmers leave town) and the hotels at 3 p.m? Of course, if everyone (town as well as country) got up at dawn and retired to bed at tlusk, what would the BEACON do?
Yours etc.,
NO. VEMBETI.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 4
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189HOURS AND OURS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 4
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