AN IMMOVABLE FEAST.
What Is known as the Calendar Reform mit-a measure now being put fot-wavd, and supported by -several well-Vnown members of Parliamentwill turn our present :opsy-turvcy system of dividing tho year into one of perfect order. HP . Under this Bill, the year is to consul; .of 3G4 days only. New Yrav'fl 7My is to be a day by itself—neither December 31st nor January Ist. Incidentally, it is to be a Bank Holiday. Under this arrangement, and with the odd day apart, \\\d remaining days are to divided into lour equal quarters of 91 days each, and 52 weeks of seven days each. Kadi quarter will contain exactly 13 and' will be divided into two months of 30 days each, and one month of 31 days. Easter Sunday, which at present depends upon tho moon for its date, will, if the Bill becomes law,, ccasfi to be a movable feast, and will always fall on April 121 h. January Ist will always fall <jn a Wednesday. As for Leap Year, tho proposers of this now calendar mi freest an extra day in Juno every fourth year v; ;....■ ~,..£
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 723, 21 November 1914, Page 6
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188AN IMMOVABLE FEAST. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 723, 21 November 1914, Page 6
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