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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1927, Page 2

Eastkh being :i movable festival arrives at various times. Tt has no sot (lav in the calendar for every year, ft may fall in .March of very late In April. Tt is necessary always to consult a special calendar to find exactly how Easter falls. There have been suggestions from time to time to fix the date for Easter at a set time annually, Imt the proposal has never got beyond the mere suggestion. It is apparent. too, that in any change, the Easter period would begin on a Friday. so that a definite date could not he selected from the calendar to fit in. As the calendar now runs, Easter Sunday next year will fall on April Bth and the year following on M arch 31st. This fluctuation is due to the necessary calculation, which has to do with the lunar periods, and on that account it is not possible under the existing system to make a definite fixture for a set. date. The last Sunday in. March for the first Sunday in April might he fixed artificially as Easter Sunday, that is the l>oßt that could he done towards a definite fixture. But tlio material result would be tlirr same. The solemn observance wou'd follow, and there would lie the holiday period. There may he some charm—or more charm —in the present movement which brings about an irregular reappearance of Easter year after year.