DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1036, 17 August 1911, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

REAQ A SECOND TIME. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the House of Representatives this everting, Mr Sidey moved the second.reading o£ ( the New Zealand Mean Time Bill/ ' which was ; before the House last .session as the Daylight Saving Bill. The measure provides, that on. the last Sunday in September, at 2 p.m., all the clocks m the country sfh'all he put on to 3 o'clock, and on tue last aunaay m March, all the clocks in the country shall Ibe put '.back one hour. He pointed out that already one of the Australian States had followed tlie, form, of the Bill, and .similar Bills "were before the other States of the Commonwealth at the present time. A large portion of the public opinion in New Zealand was in. favour of the proposal. A petition was to •be presented to Parliament, for which the athletic bodies were mainly resjponjsible, n, support of the Bill. It would contain .some three, or four thousand signatures, and would be one of the most representative and influential petitions ever presented to the House. The parrying into effect of the provisions of the Bill was extremely simple. Nothing need be altered .but the clocks. (Mr G. M. Thompson) said he could mot support the Bill. He would like to hear what the milkmen and those engaged on morning newspapers had (to say .with regard to the proposal. I | The hest ,scientific evidence taken by i a committee of the House last ises 1 - ' sion w*as against the proposal. Mr Fisher contended that, .such a measrure as proposed would benefit the working man, and allow him to get out with his children, in daylight. It would also benefit school I children! in the matter of home study. Mr Poole strongly supported the .Bill. Its economic aspects in the matter of the .saving of light, taken -with it's athletic and amusements ibenefits, tended to make tlip meas-'' ure> one which should go on to the Statute Book. [After some further discussion, the Bill ,was read « second time.