DEFINITION OF TIME BILL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 14 August 1915, Page 3

DEFINITION OF TIME BILL.

Sir,—The proposed changes made by the-, above Bill -will be,'very much opposed in country districts, and the constant alterations of time will he very inconvenient in any dealings with the outside world as regards shipping timetable or cabling. As it is only a system of make-believe it would be largely ignored, especially in.the dairy industry. If any 'change is desirable, it would be better to. permanently advanco the mean time of New Zealand thirty minutes, thus making tho time exactly I' 2 hours from Greenwich time. All the North Island and northern part of the South Island have their trno time ahead of the mean time, ranging from six minutes in Taranaki to 22 minutes at G.isborne, Auckland, and Wellington, being about 10 minutes ahead. In coiiisi quenco of this, it is usual on the cast side' of the North Island for people in the country to put their clocks 20 minutes ahead of time, thus keeping up to the sun, and finishing . tho eight hours' work-day before dark in winter. Practically three-quarters of tho population of New Zealand live ahead of the mean time, and if the Legislative Council amend tho, Bill in this manner little objection would be made to it.—l am, etc., EAST COAST.