PARLIAMENT.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 June 1920, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

.s NQ-CONI'IDENCU motion DLi’LATLD. In the liou i; of Kcpre-cntulives ye?if flay on ih*■ motion to go iuio Com-tiiitti-i- of Supply, Mr 11. Holland Uuller) nsovoij o - ;i n amendment: — ••Tint lls i House e:-. presi i s it? disapproval of (1) tiie failure of the Govcru-UM-ut to in■ ik• • adequate provi-ion for j tio- foil rcpre-.entat iou oi the people iiy j imans of :t rvstem of proportional rej j re-rotation. (-) The failure of the (lovcrmnctii. to effectively combat the high tiu'l increasing com. oi living. (2) Tin; failure of the Government to provide home- 1 for the people. (1; The failure of the Government to ensure adequate coal and other fuel xupplies; and the failure of the Government to proceed with the necessary public v. ork*. ” On a division being taken the motion defeated by ’■‘/■j vote- to Id, a numiier of Libera! members absenting themselves from the House. Those who voted for the motion were: Messrs . Atmore, Bartrnm, Fraser, Holland, I Howard, McCombs, Masters, Parry. ! Poland. Sav.-.gr-, Seddori, Sidey, Smith fS. G.). Sullivan, 'Jhaeker and Vcitch. DAYLIGHT SAVING. ft i-. understood that the New Zea--1 lan-1 Standard Time Bill, which the Government ha-, given notice to introduce. provide.- .-imply that New Zealand mean time' shall be Id hour-, in advance of Greenwich time, instead of some eleven and a half hour-, a,-, at pre--eat. The request for thi- change hobeen made previously by n-trorioxn'-rs :ti :hi.- country. The effect of the change will be a small instalment of the demand- of those favouring daylight saving, and this is one of the purpo ■ - of the Bill. It will minimise the k load difficulty- o: all ra-rneipalitiea and other supplier-, of electric current lor power and light. At pro tent most of tfcc plants are fully loaded daring the day-light hour-, and when the light tail- .and they have to carry not only tio- power load but the lighting load and the extra tramway load soon afterward-, they are -trained to danger point. This Bill, if passed, will put everything forward half at: hour, and thsrc will be a little more daylight, causing the toad for electric lighting to be a little less at the worst period of the 'lay- The load will be a little heavier in the morning, but the disunity at thi-. tisus i; never so aeriou.’..