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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 296, 11 July 1929, Page 6

“Is your printing done out of town? ” asked Mr. P. H. Wood at a meeting of the A. and P. Association at Marton, and vhen the reply came in the affirmative he described the policy as a bad one. “ A local institution which depends on local people for support should contribute its expenditure locally,” he said, and when informed that tenders were called and the local price was higher he replied that local industry should be supported even if there was a little difference in a big order. Once a year at least some correspondent asks the dates on which the seasons begin. The latest is an inquiry: “ Does winter start on the shortest day, and summer on the longest?” (says the Wellington Post). As the seasons merge into one another and are not signalised j by any distinct natural event the shortest day is only one of many differing imperceptibly—only an arbitrary definition can be made. The accepted system is to say that summer begins on the longest day, winter on the shortest, and spring and autumn at the equinoxes. This, of course, makes it absurd to call the longest day “ mid-summer day.”