FIFTY YEARS AGO Thursday December 5, 1968

Children’s two-mile trek in the dark

The Presbytery of Kintyre heard on Tuesday that two children in the parish of Killean and Kilchenzie have to trek two miles in total darkness each morning to get to school. The road they use is nothing short of a rough track, with a descent of around 400 feet over the two miles. The Rev. John D. Sutherland, Killean and Kilchenzie, told the Presbytery this when they met on Tuesday. The Presbytery was asked by the Church and Nation Committee to report on any inconvenience caused by the introduction of British Standard Time. The Rev. Ivan F. Tibbs, Longrow, said that a farmer had told him that he couldn’t put his cows across the road into a grazing field after milking time in the morning because he would be breaking the law. Mr Tibbs said that this held up the farm operations throughout the day. And the Rev. James W. Hood said that the introduction of B.S.T. had given him a new respect for milkboys. He said he had occasion to be up at 6.30am on a particularly dark morning and the milkboy was at the door leaving his milk.