DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Shannon News, 9 March 1928, Page 3

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

"Advocate/' writing to the "Auckland Star" on the subject of daylight saving, says:—What is wanted is a definite proof of injury to farmers, and people will listen to it. Not a platitude about dew delaying the haymaking in morning, when hundreds of fanners have been haymaking by moonlight some seasons when rain was threatening.' Not a flat refusal to put 'en'the clock, and then contradict it by saying thai'when they bring in the rows an hour* earlier in the afternoon the Hies worry them; they cannot have it'both ways." Not by saying it means getting up an hour earlier, when hundreds nave" made no difference whatever: rising by the sun last season, they'have'r.sen by the sun during the iast four months, as they are at perfect liberty to do. Not pj complaining Ihat ihe trains do not suit, when the alterations offered have not been accepted Not by suggesting that those in the city can have it, if they want it, by getting up an hour earlier, for :1m has been' proved impossible in every country in the world. It is not those who want it who can please themselves, or they would do it, but they are tied down by conventional hours Tor business, transport, sports and everything that counts in a civilised community. It is those who object who can' please themselves: farmers, elderly people, retired, business men, and they have done it.