DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1917, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

EFFICIENCY BOARD’S ' Recommendation.

|jl If ay last the Christchurch National Efficiency Board wrote to the Government advocating the introduction of daylight saving, not merely for the term of the war, but for all time. Speaking on the subject to a .“Press” reporter yesterday, Mr J. A, Frostick, chairman of the Board, staled that the Board had requested the Wellington Philosophical Society to draw up a report, and this also had been sent to the Minister. As chairman of the Board he was entirely in favour of daylight saving, both from the standpoint of national efficiency and economy.

. “In England the clock was put back one hour at the beginning of last summer,” Mr Frostick said, “and it is estimated that it resulted in the saving of at least 270,000 tons of coal and 11,500 tons of oil for light aloneBut this was only tho beginning of the benefits of the system. The saving of 150 hours of daylight had a markedly beneficial effect on the health and morals of the British people. Mr J. E. liulton, the labour manage) of Vickers, Ltd., the great engineers and shipbuilders, recently stated that he considered the Summer Time or Daylight Saving Act to be one of the greatest boons ever conferred on the industrial classes of the greater towns and ciiies.

Referring to the fact that Australia. after a trial of daylight saving, had gone hack to the old method, Mr Frostick said that in New Zealand it was not proposed to make a difference in time of more than half an hour. Australia’s experiment had been more drastic. What the Efficiency Board had advised was that there should be exactly 12 hours’ difference between Greenwich and New Zealand time, instead of eleven and a half as at present. When the people of the Dominion realised the need for strict economy they would awaken to the knowledge of an economy that lay ready at their ha.nd—the introduction of daylight saving.