DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 95, 26 August 1913, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

ME SIDEY'S BILL. [Peh Press Association.] Wellington, August 25. A large deputation, introduced bj Mr Sidey, waited upon Mr Massey to day asking that the Government should take up Mr Sidey's Daylight Saving Bill. Mr Sidey said the deputation war not only representative of Wellington, but was an idication of a desire oi the part of a large section of tin community to make greater use of daylight. The Bill before Parliamen' only applied to three months of thr year and the deputation asked Mi Massey to take it up. Several speakers, including Dr. Collins, supported Mr Sidey's views Mr Massey gave a distinctly unfavorable reply. One fatal objection, h( said, was that the people of the Do minion would never submit to the inconvenience that would arise from putting the clock forward at one period of the year and putting it back again at another, as proposed in Mr Sidey'e Bill. If any change were made it would have to be a permanent change. He pointed out that the deputation had been unable to point out a single country in which the system proposed in the Bill had been tried, although it was true that it had been tried in some towns in Canada, and in South Australia the clock had been put forward permanently half-an-hour He understood this worked very well and he suggested that the question of doing something similar in New Zealand was worth inquiry. He promised to submit the deputation's request to Cabinet, but he hardly thought it would agree to it without obtaining more information.