SUMMERTIME TO END

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 603, 4 March 1929, Page 16

SUMMERTIME TO END

THIRD SUNDAY IN MARCH PUTTING BACK THE CLOCKS New Zealand’s second experience of official summertime will end a fortnight hence, on March 16, when the clocks must be put back in accordance with the terms of the Summer-time Act rushed through Parliament at the end of last session. Though there were many expressions of discontent with the full hour’s daylight saving as tried in the summer of 1927-28, there has been none with the half-hour practised this summer. Indeed, the summer-time principle appears to have been accepted without the slightest dissatisfaction by all classes of the community, and no inconvenience has been suffered.

There is little doubt that the sum-mer-time principle will be endorsed by by the new Parliament. Possibly only a half-hour’s advance of the clock will be authorised for a start, though some ardent champions of summertime, notably Mr. A. Harris, of Waitemata, will probably lead a strong agitation to have provision for the full hour embodied in the Bill. The fact that the

new Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, is a confessed champion of the sum-mer-time principle, and that its most vigorous opponent in the House, Mr. "\V. S. Glenn, was defeated for Rangitikei at the elections, may make their task easier. Mr. Glenn, aided by Mr. A. M. Samuel (Thames), was instrumental in having Mr. T. K. Sidey’s original Bill thrown out last session, but the Government relented in the closing hours of the session, and brought in the halfhour measure, which was passed without opposition.