-2- up to 2 or 3 hours in the evening, thus losing for their allotments, Home Guard duties, etc. Auxiliary workers on farms are also inconvenienced in getting home. Moreover towards the end of August the evenings draw in so that under double summer-time daylight is insufficient to continue harvesting. (Blackout ends at 5.41 a.m. and begins at 8.19 p.m. in London on 1st September). The domestic difficulties are so great that 90 per cent of the farmers have been unable to avail themselves of the concession to work single summer-time.