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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20463, 5 February 1932, Page 6

now often can February have, five Mondays?:/'jAn Auckland business taan notjiced the other day for the first time that there are five Mondays this month, the Ist, Stij, lath, 22ad, and 29th, and then claimed an actuary as his authority for stating that February can have five Mondays only once in 'BO years. As a point of fact, in every leap year one day must recur live times in February, the recurrence of any particular day falling . evi?ry, 38 years." Jfext leap year, 1936, there will be five Saturdays, and it-will not be until 1960 that there will again be five Mondays. After experiencing a period of dormancy in common with most . other country places, the little town of Cromwell, in Central ">tago, has awakened to a quiet thrill of expectancy and optimism. The Mining Association there has.effected an arrangement with the Unemployment Executive by which the Association is now employing the unemployed miners on prospecting* work. The men in most instances have been permitted t° .pifk- their own claims, and in some cases nro .cjuietly confident that after appno'dijf preliminary wtfrJc they will be 'successful in striking gol<l. The work in itself is already proving to be considerably more fascinating than the uneconomic tasks on which the unemployed have of late been engaged.