DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 285, 24 April 1929, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN.

A MATAMATA VOTE.

One For, Balance Against.

“ Tinkering With the clock is no good. Let them make it half-an-hour all the year round if they are going to alter it,” stated Mr. ii. C. Rollett, when a communication on Daylight Saving was read at a meeting of Matamata farmers on "Wednesday. Mr. Simpson: It would be in winter that we would appreciate the saving most.

Mr. Rollett: The one hour in summer is totally against the farmers’ interests.

Mr. West: Yes; I would oppose “that. But half an hour is all right. Mr. Rollett: If they leave it on. Mr. West: I think if we support the half-hour it will he best for u=. "If we don’t they will go for the full liour again. Mr. Simpson: Well, I am totally opposed to saving daylight at all, and "I think we should stick to it. Mr. West: We are half-an-hour behind the right time now. Mr. Simpson: How did tve do in our young days? Mr. West: We are always looking Tor an improvement. Mr. Simpson: We managed all right when I was a young fellow. They say they can’t see to garden, but if a man is an enthusiast he will get up early. / Mr. Rollett: When they had the "hour none of them would go on the “tennis courts because they said it “was too hot at 3 p.m. , Mr. McMillan of the press used to favour it, but Tie got sick of it because he had to wait all hours of the night for meetings, and then had to be at the •office in the mornings. Mr. West: But that was because ;you would not roll up to meetings. The chairman: Some came at one “time; but most at another. Mr. West: The time is not right mow according to longitude. Messrs. Rollett and Simpson then moved that the branch record its -vote as being opposed to Daylight Saving. On being put to the vote the motion was carried, only Mr. West -voting against. [The reference by Mr. West is to “the fact that “ clock ” time is calculated from each meridian of longitude divisible hy 15. a' belt 7 h degrees •on either side of these lines taking ■standard time from the centre: As 15 degrees is equivalent to one hour, "it follows that, by the sun, the time in some places is up to half-an-hour -slow or fast, according to their location east or west of the central line. k ln places adjustments are made to -suit conditions, such as. 1421 degrees ~E in Australia, as the meridian divisible by 15, viz.. 135, passes through -sparsely populated areas. A similar adjustment occurs on the International Date Line, which should be 180 degrees, just over - a degree off "East Cape. , Actually the position' in the North Island is that the clock time adopted is approximately half-•an-hour slow, and if the hands of the dock were put on half-an-hour, it -would be nearer to the mean of the ■correct time.—Ed. Record.]