The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915

DAYLIGHT .SAVING. A ••.•sot''" was liiadc un tin- Du .Saving JJill when it came before the Jlouse of Representatives in Committee on Thursday night. A IjunJ of Country .M's.P. who are of the opinion that daylight saving proposals will press heavily upon the farmer when they pass into Jaw made 1111 efl'ort to "talk out"' the bill, but they tailed (ior the lime being, a I least) in their endeavour to block the bill's progress. 'J hat the bill will pass into hnv eventually we I'eel wire, tor its principle and proposals are basically sound. Some country ■members ol Parliament all'eci to be affrighted at I lie- idea ol' their c 'ii^tiiui'iits being re(|iiired to arise from bed ifn hour earlier tha:i the already early hours at which tlu-v begin their daily labours. fsut the fear i 3 not justified lor the most part, it merely shows tin* yredilecti in of such members as Messrs Mine, Ukey. Forbes. Anstey. I'earce and Lee. the typeis ol some twenty others, to take tiie guidance of their Ws reasonable constituents in,stead of I hat ol the more progressi ve ones: or better still, ol thinking lor themselves and frying to lead public opinion in progressive channels. The committee ' debate on the bill was notable for the gratuitous assumptions and non-argumeula-tive condemnations advanced bv tinmembers to whom we have referred. NotaMv so was the allegation that all the country constituencies were against the principle of the bill. The disproof is in the fact, .amongst other testimonies, that a petition in favour ol the hill was isigned widely in Levin ami distnei by farmers and townspeople alike. Daylight .saving proposals ;iro meeting to-day the unren.sening opposition of True Conservatives on both sides of the JJous l : tiiv same f|iiality of opposition that the compulsory military service proposals met—on other grounds, maybe—some seven years ago. June's characteristic for laying her warm ear over the earth is the characteristic of many of our politicians; they listen for the rumble and cast their votes accordingly. they come before the electors they come to be elected at a'l hazards, and they follow what "seems" to be the popular opinion -without striving t>o ascertain accurately what it amounts to. A very few years from today Messrs Oakev. Forbes and tho : ' equals will find Phoebus rising at exactly the .same minute as he <li'l thimoriiing: and though tlieir clocks will indicate then a later hour than thev did this morning the event ivill be all in the day's work and tlieir earlierobfained sleep will have been just as efficacious for restoreinent of energy.