DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4993, 28 June 1926, Page 3

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

AN OPINION FROM LONDON.

AGAINST “ SUMMER-TIME.”

Writing from London, Mr Wajter w -- Fuller, late of lOHental Bay, Wellington, refers interestingly to the day-light-saving question. “I see by the New Zea.land papers that another attempt is being made to introduce day-light-saving or ‘summer-time,’ as it is called here, into New Zealand. I hope that the New Zealand Parliament will not be so misguided as to give, effect to any legislation that will bring this about. I have made it my particular business to inquire, into this question, and have come to the conclusion that most people are against it. There are a lot, of course, who are indifferent. At a children’s hospital the other day I heard some of the nursies violently denouncing it. As a small instance it-- of the foolishness of the thing I may a visit to the London Zoo a few days ago. This place is kept open till 8 p.m., but at a little after Ig-" 6p.J. it was deserted, though it was crowded an hour before. It was evident that people had h,ad enough daylight- A large number o£ agriculturists in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire whom I have consulted during motor runs into the, country a ; re loud jcr in their condemnation of what one •? farmer said was an ‘idiotic tinkering with the laws of Nature.’ As far as I can see, this law has been passed here simply to give a few people a little longer in which to play tennis a ; iid cricket.”