WHAT LEAP-YEAR COSTS
£100,000,000 FOR A DAY. Leap year has many other advantages and disadvantages besides the, traditional risk—-or consolation —to bachelors of receiving a proposal of marriage. Among its oddities is that the Government, public undertakings, and employers generally have an extra day to collect revenue and make profits, and every worker who is paid monthly works an extra day for nothing. • Holders of fixed interest securities; such as war loan, debentures, and bonds, lend their money one day for nothing, and it is estimated that every leap year day makes a difference of nearly £100,000,000 in gain or loss People who are born on February 29 are confronted with the problem of bow to celebrate four birthdays in one; Prisoners due for release from gnol_ at : the end of February have a real grie\nnce against a calendar that causes them to spend an extra day' in prison! Leap year is a comfort,, however, trt tho girl with a tardy lover—though it needs moral courage to invoke leap year’s aid.
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Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 13
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171WHAT LEAP-YEAR COSTS Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 13
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