"Summer Time Till October 4"

        From the "Wisbech Standard" - 24 July 1925
        
        Instead of being as hitherto, variable and subject to the passage of a fresh law yearly, Summer Time 
        will henceforth begin always on the third Sunday in April as it did this year, and end on the first 
        Sunday in October.

        The new closing date will come into operation this year instead of the anticipated date of the last 
        Sunday in September. 

        This is the effect of the Bill which passed its third reading in the House of Commons on Friday after
        a brief debate, which attracted the unusually large attendance for a Friday of more than 300 members.

        Fierce opposition from members representing agriculture and mining constituencies threatened at one time
        to wreck the Bill, upon which the Government promised a free vote of the House.  Originally it proposed 
        that Summer Time should begin on the first Sunday in April, but postponement for a fortnight was agreed 
        to as a compromise with English agricultural representatives.

        Scottish farmers who reap their harvest late in September wanted Summer Time to end early that month.

        Dr. Little said that the medical profession was unanimously in favour of the extension of Summer Time.
        He thought there should be a full six months of it.

        The Prime Minister urged the House to accept the proposed compromise because the wishes of the people
        generally were so decided on the matter that this was the only hope for agriculturists to secure anything
        at all.

        The Scottish amendment was defeated by 228 votes to 56 and the third reading agreed to.  


        Transcription © Ann McClean, 2009 

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