REFORM OF CALENDAR
FIXED DATE FOR EASTER ADVOCATED IN LONDON LONDON, April H>. General reform of the calendar, with a fixed date for Easter, is advocated bv the London Chamber of < omnierce iii a. resolution forwarded to-night to the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, and to Pope Pins.
A fixed date for Easier, it was urged, would confer great benefits on trade and commerce.
“The inefficiency of the present svstetu is obvious,” Ihe recommendation stated, “when it is realised that the same quarters are not comparable for statistical purposes from year to year, owing to the varying number of working days in. them. “The .chamber therefore urges the Government to use its influence at a conference to he held in the autumn under the auspices of the League ot Nations to secure the adoption of a perpetual 1,2-month calendar divided into equal quarters of 91 days, with New Year’s Day undated and a fixed date for Easter.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 6
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