Although the worst winter weather invariably comes after rather than before it, the occurrence of the shortest day is hailed in many quarters almost as a red-letter day and as indicating that spring is not very far ahead. Considered from the point of view of the length of time between sunrise and sunset, a number of days on either side of June 22 are of approximately equal. But, astronomicallly speaking, the winter solstice occurred about 8 p.m. on Thursday, and therefore that day was officially the shortest day, There after the sun begins to move southward and to favour this hemisphere more and more.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4802, 26 June 1939, Page 8
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