SUMMER TIME

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 8

SUMMER TIME

majority against fuul hour. SIB T.SIDEY SOUNDS THE HOUSE :•V ■' ' ■ \ (“Guardian” Special Service).. DUNEDIN, September 20. There has. so. far "not'been., any debate or vote in-the present House'of. Representatives to indicate the Views of members em< : the subject of daylight saving. In order to form an. opinion whether any legislation; ..mighty succeed during... the present ..session, and, if! so, on lysfbat linefS, Sir Thomas Sidey about, 10 days ago addressed ; a questionnaire to 67 members, that, is, tp, all the European members otln& ’.thajp •‘•iildtiisti^ap^:-. «***»> \ u^f. Ti./ ‘‘So far,” said Sir Thomas to-day, “50 members have done; me .the. honour of sending rep3j.es. These have, been ' handled salely i by'-. myself,. . WfhL thp confidetwe of (members is much apr' predated, and will, the strictly ,obr served.* ■> I am now in a position toj draw one definite...coneluision-rrhaving regard to the views of.those who have replied, and also ; the known views of certain? other ■ members~afid’; that is that although the proposal to. rpvert to a full hour of. summer time' would rer<eive considerable, support,' there is majority, in ;its favour in the present House. ; ; • “About on©-third of those who have reoliad *iare.-definitely-"against any alteration;,iu thq existing,.law, Qu tb'e other, hand,.-a majority-of those who have replied favour an extension of the half-hour period, ,so that it would begin little earlier injjthe tyenr, and end a little later than at present.' It, if 'likely that this proposal would find accent.fl.nce by a majority-of the House. One or two favour amextension only at the end of probably because, the weather; is us-, uttlly more settled .at th'nt season th'an in the spring, and also bemuse of the Easter holidays. I would, howeyer, point, out that the days aire longer ip September than in April, an«" that• an extension, for even.month would not ajways include Easter, /ps ■ deed Friday may fall .ps late, as April. 23rdr, ; There,, are , seme .who 'are : ! posed fo extending the periqd, -as lilflely tq .postpone the. tipi,© when / the; • full hpur may be reverted. to, for. while; a«°tW.' -]tiaJf-houir. be added tp the, present period, making a. ; full, hpjir, that could not without Inoqn-, vepipnoei /be. dope, in respect ofi a ; iod ; extended 4>eypnd ... the. .'present; limit*. ! ‘"J?here are several members who. 'by; half,,an v hou,r all.the .jrehr . r(mnd-.1 doubt . whqtlier, these, meim. have; sufpcientiy, r this proposal would affect .the-,,south-, ernfflUst. 'part of .'New iDPe of tSe,.reaspps lyfe’ "NewY Zealand *}§, spited' for 'tihe,: adaption ,cf, -.suraipe.r t|m© 'iis .that V|hp '.h.prtherp., portiqn, the hour a of daylight ia summer arp fewer than in /the ,south,., lies to esst of ,the. longifude that deter., tpmes pur Atapdard time.- Thn w^d}?. apportion of». the ,si>uth. .Island; .For tfyesie,.parts of' New -Zealand,; ths sun. ify in, advance;; of. .the - jdock, -. a,nd .if these parts only had. had to he considered when out standard time was determined, there can be no-. - doubt that such time/would have been fixed aj a half an hqqj;,, ahead ,of the present time. For those in the North Inland an advance ,of , the . clock by a whole hour only moans an advance: of hajf an hour on what, hut for South Island v considerations, would havp their normal time. On the other, hand, the southernmost part of New Zealand lies tpthe west of such meridian, and there the sun is late on tljie clock, hut this is compensated, for in summer by the fact that ,[as ope goes south there are more hours of daylight, ; ; the sun rising .parlier th'an in. yhe north. In winter, . however, there'is np such, compensation., )!In mid-winter in Dunedin tjie sun rises fully half ,ap hour later, than yi, Wellington, although it .sets about, the same time. If the clock VerA advanced by half an. hour, ip mid-wip-te|. in Dunedin the sun would not rise till within a.few minutes before half-., past eight., I hardly thipk the people oh Duned'ip would appreciate haying tp; ripe, present on dark winter mornings. The position would he accentuated in Vwns 'p;,'iFfhs. r .s>ttth. i- ivieh- as> v-Gore.-, Inver 1 -iargiill, and Quecrtipfcowni. In .Ip-ver-cavgilj the sur ,wophh;nqt t| till about, minutes to That .fact alone the „ unsuit { n.lilitY for >W. ZpaUnd as a whole of nn clcok^ v , Iff the sputh , the,re would be iitjtlc-or no f ;,laJ light, ,1 the advocates of an nll-.the-ypar-roiind I*' 11 ’ giye <Jup negaird to tlieso,, epusiderartions.”(,