WHAT LEAP-YEAE COSTS
£100,000,000 FOB A DAT. 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 £100,000,000 in gain or loss. People who are born in February 29 are confronted with the problem of how to celebrate four birthdays in one. Prisoners due for rcloaso from gaol at the end of February have a real grievance against a calendar that causes them to spend an extra day in prison. . Lop-year is a comfort, however, to the girl with. a. tardy lover—though it needs moral courage to invoke Leapyear ’a aid. i
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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169WHAT LEAP-YEAE COSTS Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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