DAYLIGHT SAVING.
IN VOGUE li'lONG SAWMILLERS. Daylight 6aving--is 110 now thing in Now Zealand (writes 'our Wairarapa corrcsponient). The system was introduced into tho imintry with the advent of tho sawmilling iidustr.v, and still continues. Tho mode has Icon to put the'clock on half-an-hour, 7.30 f.iir.' being classed as 8 o'clock, and 4.30 p.m. ts 5 o'clock. Tho primary reason of the change was that'after half-past four in tho nii'itor timo there was not enough .light to work in safety .in the.yicinity of the nipping pvift-running circular saws. On many Wairarapa farniSj'y.whero thora; are old sawmill msn, tho clock still retains', its half-hour lead. :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 251, 16 July 1908, Page 3
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104DAYLIGHT SAVING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 251, 16 July 1908, Page 3
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