SUMMER TIME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3919, 16 March 1929, Page 3

SUMMER TIME.

BNDIS TO-DAY. CLOCK'S GO BACK O'N SUNDAY. Summer time will offijci'ally end at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, when clocks throughout the Dominion will be put (back half an hour. This is the second summer during which the principle of daylight-sav-ing'has been in force in New Zealand. It was first enacted by the Summer Tiime Act, 1927, under which the period of summer time began at 2 o'clock in the (morning of Sunday, November 6, 1927, when the time Was ,advanced one hour on New Zealand standard time, and ended at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 4, 1928. iStrenu'ous opposition to the innovation, which .was vastly popular amongst uiban communities,' was offered by many farmers, and when Summer Time Bill was introduced in Parliament last year its defeat was averted by the adoption of a compromise whereby the time was half an hour in advance of standard time. Under the Act of last year, therefore, summer time commenced at 2 o’clock in the morning of Sunday, October 14, 1928, and it will end at 2 a.m., Ne'w Zealand standard time, on Sunday, March 17. The time therefore will be put back 30 minutes as from 2 o’clock New Zealand standard time on Sunday morning. It is regarded as certain that a Summer Time 'Bill will be introduced next session, and in view of the experience of the last two seasons, it will be interesting to see whether the opponents /of “daylight saving” will accept the full hour or restrict the measure to the half-hour.