DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 348, 29 March 1911, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

In the course of an interview with the Home Secretary, Mr Willett submitted a large number of reasons in favour of his Daylight Saving Bill. Mr Winston Churchill said, in reply, that he was a converted man on the subject of the Bill, and that he required no convincing to urge him forward, nor could he conceive of any argument now which would cause him to doubt the wisdom of passing the Daylight Bill into law. He agreed that it was most encouraging that 230 members of the new House of Commons had expressed themselves favourable to the principle of the Bill. He did not know whether it would be quite in order for him, as a member of the Government, but if it were he would put his name down for the ballot. He felt sure, however, there would be other members who would be willing to assist in this direction, and when the Bill came before the House he would speak in its favour to the full extent of his power. Mr Churchill further expressed the view that the Daylight Saving Bill wouid be a most valuable adjunct to the Shop Hours Bill, and that when both these Bills passed into law the conditions of life of shopkeepers and their assistants would be greatly improved. He saw no difficulties which were not comparatively easy of solution in regard to the Continental railway connection, seeing that all the railway companies were agreed as to the advantage to their inland traffic, while the London and North-Western, the Midland, the London and Southwestern, the Great Central, the London, Brighton and South Coast, the Caledonian and Furness Railways, etc., were heartily in favour of the Bill.