LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Australia <k N.Z. Cable Association.j CALENDAR REFORAI. LONDON, Aug. 30. The reformation of the calendar throughout the world, by a fixed date for Easter, is recommended by the League of Nations Sub-Commit-tee, and on it the League Assembly will debate shortly. The “Daily Chronicle” commenting .on this report, advocates the adoption of the suggestion that Easter Day should always be the second Sunday in April, to which the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Clmi'chcs, it says, are agreeable though the Greek Church, is uncertain. The report suggests further alternatives; first to divide the year into quarters, each containing two thirtyday months and one thirty-one day month, the last day of the year being “Dies Non,” whereby every date will always be the same day of the week. Leap year would ho unchanged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1926, Page 2
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135LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1926, Page 2
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