The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. DAYLIGHT SAVING.

'I iih Daylight Saving liilJ a petition favouring which was signed widely by the fanners nl' Levin and district some eighleen jnonlJis ago - is a measure that eventually will reach the Statute Hook. Tin; unreasonable Tears ol some Taranaki members have resulted in the measure being blocked in the House of lleprescntatives this yea i', but next year or the year alter the bill assuredly will be made law: public opinion in its favour being of too great a volume io be continually thwarted, From late,si advices The Chronicle learns thai there is a wide consensus of nppro\al for the daylight saving proposal throiighoul Kuglaiid. .From Sloaue Square. London, S.W., Mr \V. Willet writes us interest ingly on this subject. J1 is letter runs : "The Kditor, ilorowhenua Daily Clironii'l(■. Dear Sir: As I understand the second reading of this Bill has been carried in (he New Zealand House of Representatives, I think you»' readers will lie interested to hear thai rcsolut ions in favour of the Hill in (his country have been passed by O-'iO City Corporations and Town and District Councils, including those of London, "Liverpoo!, Manchester, Sheflield, Bellas!. Dublin, lilasgow, Dundee, Cardilf, and Swansea, so (hat in the Counlies of Berkshire. Buckingham. Cornwall, Cumberland. Derby, Dorse!, Hertford, Huntingdon, Xor! liampton, Oxford, Shropshire, Sussex, Wiltshire and Westmorland, lliere is not now a single (own id' more than 'JO.OOO inliabilanis, (he Town ('ouncil id' which has not passed a resolution in favour of the Bill.

Sillli 1 ;tr resolutions have also beer, passed by - Eour County Councils. Tile Conference of Hie I'rlian District Councils of Knu'land and W'.il os. The Convention of' Royal Burghs of Scotland. Pifty-seven Trade Unions and forty-seven branches of (lie Shop Assistants' Union. Seventy-one Chambers of Comineico, inoludiiii;' ilioso of London, Manchester, Liverpool. Sheffield, I and Bristol. $ The Associated Chambers of Commerce in five successive Years, viz. : TOO!), "11)10. 1011. 101'J and 101:1. The Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire at {heir Congress in London in 10P„\ and Ihe National Chamber of Trade, (respectively). Several, hundreds of Societies, Associations and Clubs. • In Germany a resolution advocating a Daylight Saving Bill for thi'.r country has been passed by the Conference of Chambers of Commerce of the Cerman Empire and in flu; Prussian House of Lords a member has proposed thai such a Bill should be in!reduced, ■yours faithfully. \l. AVillett."