DAYLIGHT SAVING.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your very able article in Saturday night’s ‘Star’ on the subject of daylight saving made very interesting reading, and simply goes to prove what has all along been obvious—viz., that the people of New Zealand are almost unanimously in its favor, ff a vote on the question were taken 1 am quite satisfied that a 100 to 1 majority at the very least would be returned in lavor of summer time. Practically the only opposition to the scheme comes from a certain section of the farming community (a surprising number of farmers have managed to adapt themselves to the new conditions), but it is noteworthy that these same dissentients can raise no sound argument tc back up their opposition. Why work the extra hour at night, as one farmer mentioned he felt bound to do? To the uninitiated city dweller the statement that “ we feel that we have to use all the daylight we can ” is, to put it bluntly, so much twaddle. However, the opponents of the scheme are making their voices heard, and it therefore behoves the supporters of Mr Sidey’s Bill to do likewise, and to demonstrate in no uncertain manner the washes of the majority—l might say the overwhelming majority—of the people in regard to this question. The outstanding effect of the Act has been to improve the health of the whole community, and if the Act is made permanent this effort will be noticeable in a few years’ time. On this .ground alone the Act should be made permanent, and if this is done I am sure that even the farmers, whose occupation, unlike that of the city dweller, keeps them all day in the fresh air, will feel the benefit of the extra hour in the evenings, which surely need not be devoted to work. The fairest method of ascertaining the wishes of the people is by vote. This may or may not be done, but in the meantime I think that all the ratepayers’ associations, sports bodies, motor clubs, and other public bodies throughout the length and breadth of the dominion in favor of daylight saying should arrange for a monster petition' nr series of petitions to be presented to Parliament urging that the Summer Time Act be made permanent, and thus indicate the clear wishes of the majority on this most important matter—a matter which involves the health and the general well-being of the whole community. I would like to sec some of our local sports bodies, etc., give this matter a start.— f am,etc., Vox Poruu. February 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 11
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