PREPARING FOR SUMMER TIME.
Without any thought or hastening the 44-hour week, there has for years past been a desire on the part of workers iu shops and factories and i 1 offices throughout New Zealand for an early-hour knocking off time. Thi», we think, has been encouraged by the adoption in Great Britain and elsewhere of the daylight saving system, which is now become a permanent if 111*2331 Or fixture abroad. Mr Sidey cannot get his Daylight Saving Bill through the House, but here and there throughout the Dominion different firms have been induced by their employees to give the innovation a trial. And now another group is getting ready for the summer season down in Christchurch, where a petition signed by 53 of the City Council's office I -tails, asking that the hours of work w during the summer months should be I from 5.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.. came r>aI fore the Council last week. It was re- | ferred to the Finance Committee, with T power to act.- —“FeUding Star.”
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 October 1920, Page 4
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