Began With Spring
THE OFFICIAL BRITISH “YEAR” For over a thousand years the official British “year” began on March 25, the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. It was a romantic custom, based in folk loxe, to welcome the New Fear with the budding spring. The custom o:!: starting the year on the first day of ; January was not officially adopted till the eighteenth , century. When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay the custom was only 18 years old. Still, so quickly are old customs forgotten that Australians and New Zealanders of the present era firmly believe January the Fiist to be an actual permanent “landmark; 4 ’.a point where an Qld Year shuffles off the scene, and a Vigorous youngster, full of promise and Vigour, takes hi s place.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 43, 21 February 1938, Page 2
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