AN EIGHT - DAY WEEK
The movement for a reform of the calendar is making headway, a conference of the League of Nations having agreed to the main reforms —a perpetual calendar in which every day of t'he year shall fall on the same week-end, the abandonment of the movable Easter «ud the other movable festivals depending on it (says the Morning Post). This involves •» year of 364 days, with one extra d&y, outside the week and month, between the last day of June and the first of July, and in leap years a similar extra day after December 31st; and the fixing of Easter Day to the second Sunday in April. The Anglican, Catholic, Greek and Jewish Churches 'have agreed to the Easter change, but the Jewish Church objects to any interference with the sequence of the seven-day week. As an occasional eight-day period is essential to any form of perpetual calendar, no such reform can become universally operative until the Jewish objection is overcome. Perhaps a fixed Easter will be the first step.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1640, 12 May 1925, Page 7
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174AN EIGHT – DAY WEEK Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1640, 12 May 1925, Page 7
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