A FIXED EASTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 June 1913, Page 5

A FIXED EASTER.

PROPOSED CALENDAR P.E- ■■•■■ 'Vision:. ;.» -'-■:■

■- The- Swiss».Gqyernrnen£ v in.. JJoxjjjaber, 1910, at ihe instance1 > of: the International Congress 5 of ;- Chambers- of Commerce, held in London earlier-'.the-'same year, agreed to take steps for an international ..di.ploma-tJcr;-cpnfe.rence on. the.. subject of fixing Easter and*}efofhung'. ..the icaleridar,. The.-.British Government and other Continental Powers have^ it is understood, expressed willingness to (take part in sticha conference, and a i^Biill/ia^sv^ House of G6lftihbns: to serve as.ll l>a.sis. ior Im^'eriaT jfipnfeitencei ", on ,the, subject; This measure proposes'to regularise the quarters of the year, adjust the flays of the week and of the month, and tix Easter Day and other bank holidays and dates depending upon Easter. According, to it, the first day of the year will be a bank holiday, called New Year's Day. but will not be a day of the week or of the month or quarter. This leaves for £he rest of the year 364 days. %vhieh divide exactly into Tour equal quarters of ninety-one days each., and into fiftytwo weeks of seven days each. Each quarter will contain exactly thirteen weeks, divided into two months of thirty rlays each and one of thirty-one days." Starting in 1914, Easter Sunday "arid all the movable facts, feasts, and dates dpoenderitllpoirfffTwill"oeTnxed so as to fall in every year on- the. same day of tlie same month as well fs cm.the same day of the week. April 12 will, it is proposed, then and always be Easter Sunc"hv. Christmas T>av, December 25. will always be on n Wedne^da,^.!Each*day of the month will nlwvs fall on the same rlav of the week. To provide for Lenn Year, one other hark hnliclay. to be.call■nd Leap Year Day, will in Leap Ye*r Vi?> inserted between June 31st and July Ist. Tt will not be ? day of the week.! , month, or quarter. The Bill is promoted hv Mr TVhert P^arce'.-M-hoSe rDaylio;h+; ■ ftivin<r Bill also '.h'iis > once morn reached a stap"^ of being /'ordered W the House of Commons to be printed."