LOCAL DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 253, 6 September 1928, Page 4

LOCAL DAYLIGHT SAVING.

. It ife difficult to forsee just where Parliament and the country will end with the local daylight saving measure at present before the House. At first its object appeared to be the granting to the towns of the benefits of daylight saving of which they had been deprived by the opposition of the rural districts to the short-lived national scheme. No one could take serious objection to that, though, as we have pointed out on a previous occasion, it will be probably found that the plan will not work quite so smoothly as anticipated by its supporters for the reason that not even the largest city in the Dominion is a self-contained community. In discussing the Bill recently we made the point that one of the obstacles in the j path of its smooth operation would be the difficulty of defining where the summer time area ended and the standard time area began, but, judging from the report of the discussion in Parliament last night on the subject, this difficulty'is likely to be made even more complex than we had anticipated. If theie.be too much tinkering with the daylight saving plan on this “ local ” principle, it may be found that some of the disabilities which were anticipated last 7,’ear will I actually come into being—llawera ( Star. • ' ! .

No one wishes to interfere with Summer Time arrangements that will not themselves interfere with the country’s most serious interests, and if it is found by the Select Committee that Mr. Sidey’s Bill will not do this it will be passed. But it is to be hoped that the Select Committee will do its work thoroughly, and that those who are impressed by the objections to even local and optional Summer Time will take the necessary steps to have their objections heard. It is not very easy to believe that Summer Time can be enjoyed by one section of the community without interfering more or less seriously with the other section, and if it is found that this will be the position the duty of Parliament is simply to order things to remain as they are. . . . Mr. Sidey’s Bill locks very much like the re-appearrnce outside the window of a caller who has already been refused entrance by the door.—Christchurch Press.