'MONDAY HOLIDAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 11, 13 January 1940, Page 14

'MONDAY HOLIDAYS.

FIVE TIMES THIS YEAR. STUDY OF CALENDAR. . . During this year no fewer than five* public and six bank; holidays will fall on Monday, and on two occasions Friday occurs as the 13th. of the month. In' September and December the thirteenth day falls : on a Friday, thus Incoming, according to "superstition, doubly unlucky, states the "Post." New YeJir's Day, as the first day of the year, ushers in four other public holidays on The Anniversary Day for the Wellington Province falls on Monday, January 22, Easter month Monday is on March 25, tlLe King's Birthday, celebrated on the first Monday In Jnne in ; Xew Zealand, is on June 3, the day . of 'the real birthday of the. late King George V., and Labour Day, October 28, is a Monday.

other, than on Mondays are .Good Friday on March 22, Iloly Saturday on March 23} Anzac Day (which falls on a Thursday) • on April 25, Christinas Day .'(a Wednesday), and Boxing Day (a Thursday). Although five public holidays are on Mondays, five others are'on different days, being Tues day, Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Wednesday.

Bank holidays are St. Patrick's Day, Faster Tuesday". St. George's and St. David's Day, . Dominion Day, and St. Andrew's Day. Two of these, »St. George's and St. David's Day, April 23, and Faster Tuesday, March 2f», are Tuesdays. St. Patrick's Day, March 17 x is a Sunday, Dominion Day, September 23,.is a Monday, -and. St. Andrew's Day, November 30, is a Saturday. The Faster.holidays fall on.March. 22 (Good Friday),- March 23 (Holy Saturday),. March 25 (Easter Monday) , and March 2G (Easter Tuesday, a bank holiday) ..' '•/' '•>'• y--•' ;• -'

Slimmer time ends for this summer 011 -April 27, ami begins again on September 22. The change of half an hour takes place at 2 a.m. on each of those two days. '