DAYLIGHT SAVING.
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~ 6ny-- \ ; iatlas.">\ Mteoator. drew up a world;- map - on his now famous projection^,which-he called an "atlas" ; Heinrich Berghaus some 70 years ago produced a physical atlas- so "Filius." may accept the term as not confined to ''a set of maps." Should the hours of labour be altered, "Films" miay rest assured the trains will be run to suit the new condition of thing®. A revised "Bradshaw" is published monthly, and the cost of altering time-tables will not be excessive. Parliament can amend the Labour Act* and alter the hours during which labourers are permitted' to work. There are many other arguments that might be advanced, but as the proposed Bill is not likely to "become, law, they may bf left \uisaid. The Petitions Committee, to wihom the Daylight Savings Bill was referred, reported: "There was no evidence to show that the Bill. wou.ii be of any advantage to the .people in jjjie. country x districts." Mr Pearoe,*a member of the Committee, said "that he, with half the mein/bei's of the Committee were satisfied that the daylight-saving proposal would be against the interests of the great body of country' people."—l am, ettc, PATER.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10451, 17 October 1911, Page 5
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196DAYLIGHT SAVING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10451, 17 October 1911, Page 5
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