AN IMMOVABLE FEAST.
What ia known as the Calendar form Bill—a measure now being forward, and supported by well-known members of will turn our present :opsy-turvcy system of dividing tlio year into one of perfect order. Under this Bill, the year is to > cons i.'it of 364 days only. New Year'a Day is to be a day by itself—neither December 31st nor Jan* uary Ist. Incidentally, it is to be a Bank Holiday. Under this arrangement, and with the odd day apart, the remaining days arc to lie divided into four equal quarters of 91 days each, and 52 weeks of seven days each. Each quarter will contain exactly 13 weeks, and will be divided into two months of 30 days each, and one month of 31 days. Easter Sunday, which at present depends upon the moon for its date, will, if the Bill becomes law,, ceasi to be a movable feast, and will always fall on April 12tli. Januarj Ist will always fall on a Wednesday. As for Leap Year, the proposer! of this new calendar suggest an OS;, tra day in June every fourth year.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 736, 13 January 1915, Page 6
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187AN IMMOVABLE FEAST. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 736, 13 January 1915, Page 6
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