DOUBLE SUMMER TIME Memorandum by the Home Secretary.

-2- of gas and electricity in the weeks following the discontin of Double Summer Time, and it is believed that there is a corresponding increase in the domestic consumption of solid such as coal. It is estimated that 40,000 tons altogether fuel would be saved each week for a period of two or three if Double Summer Time were continued after the 13th August; saving thereafter would of course diminish as more fuel was consumed in the dark hours of the morning later in the year### present conditions this proportionately small economy of fu### is worth making.