THE WINTER SOLSTICE
The sun to-morrow will attain its most northerly declination tor the vear and the shortest day will occur. The solstice, which is used for calendar purposes to indicate the beginning f ?f winter in this hemisphere, actually falls in this country about a fortnignt_ later than the meteorological beginning o winter. For the next three months the sun will move slowly back toward the equator, but its change for the next days will be very small, and it will : >® several weeks before the lengthening o the days becomes noticeable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23997, 21 June 1941, Page 12
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92THE WINTER SOLSTICE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23997, 21 June 1941, Page 12
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