AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
♦ | NK.HTS NOW I.ONGL'R THAN j DAYS I Yesterday was the autumnal equi-! nox in the southern hemisphere, the! day when the sun crosses the equator j on its way north. When next week j starts the hours of daylight will have! diminished below 12, and until near j the end of June they will continue to decrease. After that the daylight [ hours will begin to increase, reach-j inK vernal equinox late in September. The actual loss of daylight will not become l'ully apparent till the end of April, when summer time ends, and the rhort evenings will be very marked.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 15
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102AUTUMNAL EQUINOX Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 15
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