ALTERING THE CALENDAR.
SOME BfPORTAA r T PROPOSALS
(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock) ' MELBOURNE", March 28.
The Federal Government has received a communication from the British Board of Trade, ndorsing the resolutions adopted by the Associated of Commerce in favour of the calendar scheme. The alteration provides: (1)' That New Year's Day be regarded as dies lion, and not be counted as belonging to the month or week; (2) 'Thai, the present ex f »r, day in Leap "jfcar-.be interpolat r .'ii in the middle o2 each fourth, year and treated as dies npn; (3) That the remainder of the.' year be divided into four quarters, containing tw.> months of thirty days and one month of thirty-one days.; Under this arrangement each year begins on the same day of the week. Christmas; Day also falls on %e same day of the wee*.. (4) That Easter be, fixed.: instead of being movable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 29 March 1911, Page 5
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151ALTERING THE CALENDAR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 29 March 1911, Page 5
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