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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 10

The annual dance of the Public Accountants and Sharebrokers will be held in the Winter Garden on July 14. A meeting was held yesterday in the Canterbury Women's Club to make further arrangements in connection with the bridge party to be held on July 6 in the Winter Garden to aid Nurse Maude’s funds. Over 100 tables have been booked already”, and the rooms will be especially heated for the evening. A well-attended meeting of the Market Committee of the friends of St George’s was held yesterday afternoon in Church House. Mr G. W. Dent presided. The purpose of the meeting was to arrange for the .stalls at the next market, which will be held during the second week of October. A number of helpers volunteered their assistance. Mr Edridge explained the financial position of the Hospital over which there was still a large debt. It was lor the purpose of raising funds to help pay off the debt that the market was to be held. Arrangements were also finalised for the bridge party’ to be held in the Jellicoc Ilall on Monday evening.

The solar year consists of 365 days 5 hours and 48 minutes. Regarding this as 3651 day's, a day is added every four years to absorb the extra twentyfour hours—hence “ Leap Year.”