A PERPETUAL CALENDAR.
Mr Alexander Philip, LL.B.j. is the author of an, ingenious proposal for la simplified calendar, Avhicfa) has had the cordial support of the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce. Briefly;- it. prQvi<tes>Vi6r: a year of 364 .days, New Year's Day and the extra day which comes in Leap Year, being each regarded: as dies. non. Under this scheme each ■ponth Would contain, thirty days', ■.on* day esitra beings *to the third ,Mctriih. of each quarter. ! The advantage jWould he that the year jvould' be diVisible into equal halves and. quarters; events such as market days,, at present fixed for a certain day in a certaiii ivs'jk of a certain month, would regularly recur on the same date in each month; each iday 6f*ihe week - would have, its - regular -$®* e -* vcr 3 r y ear J and a perpetual calSjad&r would be established.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 23 March 1911, Page 4
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145A PERPETUAL CALENDAR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 23 March 1911, Page 4
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