EASTER OBSERVANCE.
PROPOSED CALENDAR REFORM ROMAN CATHOLICS DISSENT. Austrian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Re-cd. 9.5 p.m.) GENEVA. Oct. 26. The committee set up by the League of Nations which recommended that Easter Sunday be a fixed annual event, to occur on the Sunday following the second Saturday in April of each year, made its report after it had considered 200 schemes. It annonnced that it was unable to suggest any reform of the calendar except that relating to the observance of Easter. The report stated that the observance of Eastef at a fixed time each year was favoured by religious, railway, scholastic, trade and travel organisations. The Roman Catholic Church authorities, however, disagreed with tho scheme upon grounds of tradition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 9
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120EASTER OBSERVANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 9
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