It is with considerable regret that we have to announce that the daylight saving scheme for this summer has received a check which places its accomplishment, on the same lines as last summer, entirely—beyond possibility.
Yesterday it was rumoured in the Chinese Press that instructions had been received by the Customs authorities to the effect that the Customs House Clock was not to be altered. Upon making inquiries we find that this news is, in fact, correct, and that the Commissioner of Customs has received official orders prohibiting the setting on of the clock.
In face of this decision it would now seem that daylight saving, if ¢p, taken up at all, will have to be arranged on voluntary lines.
Suggestions concerning how best to effect this are now under the consideration of the British Chamber of Commerce, and the committee hopes to circularize its members upon the subject within a day or two.
Though clocks cannot be altered this year, office hours may, and we feel convinced that there are a great number of Shanghai's most important business firms who will be porfectly willing to assist in formulate ing and supporting some such plan.
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