The Mayor (Mr J. J. Clark), who presided, said they had met for the purpose of considering the advisability of passing a resolution advocating the introduction of the Daylight Saving Bill into New Zealand.
In the Old Country such a Bill had been introduced, and only two members in the House of Commons had not supported it.
No doubt the Bill would be of great benefit to the community, especially at the present time, when economy in all directions was invaluable.
In America it had proved an unqualified success, and the only people who seemed to object to it, were the gas companies and electric light supply companies.
Mr William Davidson moved "That, with a view to securing economy and increased efficiency during the period of the present great war, this meeting of Dunedin citizens urges upon the Government the desirability of making provision in the War Legislation Amendment Bill, now before Parliament, for the introduction of the system of daylight saving, on the lines recently adopted by the United Kingdom and several countries of Europe; further, that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Prime Minister and to the local members of Parliament.''
Mr F. O. Bridgeman in seconding the motion, said it had taken eight years to convert the House of Commons at Home, and the conversion would probably not even now have been accomplished but for the war, and the new argument that the war had brought with it in arguing the necessity for economy.
The motion was carried unanimously.
• "We had a great experience with a hot wind here,'' writes a soldier from Egypt to an Oamaru lady.
"We were on patrol about 20 miles from camp with just a water bottle full each, and as we left camp at 4 a.m. we had to breakfast out of those bottles. At 8 a.m. it began to blow and got hotter and hotter until it was like a blast from a furnace, and fairly burned one's face. I was with my signal station on one of the highest sandhills, and by 10 a.m. not one of us had a drop of water left. The heat was awful. We sent one fellow down to where the regiment was resting under the palm trees in a deep gully to fill our bottles from the little wells they had dug. The water was brackish, but wet. About 11 o'clock they left for a larger patch of palms where there was a better well, reaching it about noon. After we had been there for a while men began to go down with sunstroke, which continued to occur until after sundown. The temperature was 125.2 in the shade under the trees. Buttons and field glasses burned the skin. The regiment reached camp about 3 a.m., and some 70 men are in hospital."
• The Clutha branch of the Farmers' Union has for some time been endeavouring to impress on the Government the necessity for taking in hand a scheme of afforestation in the district, and in response to a communication from the Secretary (Mr Ralph Renton) a letter has been received from the Under-secretary of the Department of Lands and Survey (Mr T. Brodrick), enclosing a map of the Clutha County and asking the union to mark the land it wishes to have inspected with a view to having it reported on for afforestation purposes.
The matter will be discussed at the union's meeting on Saturday next, and it is understood that the land which will probably be recommended as suitable is the area which extends along the foot of the Warepa Hills, between the Waiwera and Puerua Streams. - ODT, 25.7.1916.
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