DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10446, 11 October 1911, Page 5

DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL.

[To The Z:.lior.] ; Sir, — you explain to other eriiqiurers) wihy it is necessary to.alter tihe (clocks to make men start work an hour earlier? Cannot the result 'be obtained by altering the time, of starting work? As a matter of fact, Ibu.ilders and others at the present time start work at anearlier hour in summer than, in winter. If tne workers are willing to start an hour earlier, why not- let them do so? Surely altering the clocks is. not a necessity. There is a touch of the> prophet of old about the proposal— "If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet miust go to the mountain." By what faoality is this 'country seized upon by cranks to ibe an example to the world ? These- cranks, want us to be first, in everything—wiser 'and older countries are content to see experiments tried by novices. We rushed lrf with, universal suffrage, giving away [Dreadnoughts, paying members of Parliament, pensions, and other experiments, many of which are good and some doubtful; 'but why is this little country pushed forward to take the lead and the risk ? Is it 'tuat we have nothing to lose, or that fools rush in where angels fear to tread?— I am, etc., , PATER.