BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

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DAYLIGHT SAVING /BILL.h

LONDON, July 3

A Select Committee has approved of the Daylight Saving Bill. It advises a single alteration of the clock by one hour each in April and September.

"The Times" and "Chronicle" disapprove of the measure.

The author of the Bill ia Mr William Willett, F.R.A.S. The Bill proposed that a"t 2 a.m. on each of the four Sundays in April standard time should be advanced twenty minutes, and on each of the four Sundays in September should recede twenty minutes. The effect would be to secure a saving of daylight equivalent to one day's holiday a week during May, June, July, and August. That morning, said Mr Willett, in the course of his evidence given at the first sitting of the Select Committee, the sun rose about 4.20 and would be at'its zenith at noon. Most people, he supposed, had breakfast about 9 a.m., thus five-eighths'ot the youth of the sun had really gone before most people entered upon their duties or pleasures of the day. The eariy hours of the day were the most joyous hours. He was in the habit of taking early morning walks, and .he saw practically nobody about except men going to work and postmen and milkmen. He denied that his scheme would lead to any difficulties. "A man who does business with America," he admitted, "will suffer a disadvantage, but a man who does business with Calcutta, Bombay, aad the world generally will have an advantage."