To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuina Daty News."
Sin—Everyone who has ex-nonced the benefits of day-ight saving in other coun. tries is strongly in favour of it, and more especially those who have to work for their living—whether employed or employers. Tt is this class which constitutes probabi 99 por cent, of the population of Shanghai, where there are few who can utilise any of the best Hours of daylight for recreation or 'Most of us, riders perhaps being' the one happy exception, spend. the since roved of such inestimable value for nearly twenty years that any attempt to revert to the old july be. idi And The advantage of it in Shanghai has been conceded by the principal] business firms here, most of whom begin work in the morning throughout the summer at 8 or 830 am. and finish at 4 or 4.30 pin, This is however, by no means universal and has the great disadvantage of limiting, the hours of business between firms who stick to the old office hours, and those who have adopted the new, by one hour a day. 'Firms who' still work from 9 till 5 find that little if any out. side business can be transacted after 4 o'clock; those who start have the same experience—between 8 and 9 in the morning.
In England much was made of the difficulties which Would be encountered by railway, shipping and companies of a like nature, if the clock were changed, twice 'a year.
Shanghai is practically a" self perience has taught otherwise,
contained unit which is governed by the Customs' and a hundred other clocks. The change would be hardly observed, except perhaps for the vigil of the Tew who would. stay
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