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PUBLIC OFFICES, BUILDINGS, &c. 39
Ward Eighth. — On west by burgh boundary ; on south by Blackness
road, Scouringburn, Westport ; on east and north by North Tay street,
Lochee road, west side of Dudhope park, north side of Dudhope park,
Inverlaw place, West Albany terrace, Lawside road, footpath from Law hill
to Lochee road, through lands of Balgay to Ancrum road, Ancrum road, farm
road at Hillhead farm to burgh boundary.
Ward Ninth. — On west by burgh boundary ; on north by Blackness
road, Scouringburn ; on east by Hunter street and Small's wynd ; on south
by Pertb road.
HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, and TERMS.
Public Holidays. — New Year's Day, Second Mondays of April and October,
Victoria Day ; Summer Holidays, beginning fourth Monday of Jul}'.
Bank Holidays.— New Year's Day, Good Friday, first Mondays in May and
August, Christmas Day.
Trades Holidays.— Engineers, second Saturday of June ; Builders, last
Saturday of August.
Quarterly Terms.— Candlemas, 2nd February; Whitsunday, 15th May;
Lammas, 1st August; Martinmas, 11th November; removal terms, 28th May
and 28th November.
English Quarter Days.— Lady Day, 25th March ; Midsummer, 24th June;
Michaelmas, 29th September; Christmas, 25th December.
Movable and Other Festivals, &c., for 1906-1907. —
1906. 1907.
June 14— Corpus Christi Mar. 17— St Patrick's Day
Oct. 31— Hallowe'en „ 24— Palm Sunday
Nov. 30— St Andrew's Day „ 29— Good Friday
Dec. 2— Advent Sunday „ 31— Easter Sunday
,, 25— Christmas Day April 19— Primrose Day
1907. May 5— Rogation Sunday
Jan. 6— Epiphanv „ 9— Ascension Day
„ 27— Septuagesima Sunday „ 19— Pentecost— Whitsunday
Feb. 13— Ash Wednesday „ 26— Trinity Sunday
„ 14-St Valentine's Day „ 30— Corpus Christi
FAIRS AND MARKETS.
Stobb's Fair, for Cattle, Sheep, and Horses, is held on the first Tuesday
after the 11th of July.
Dundee First Fair, for Cattle and Horses, is held on 26th August, but if
that day fall upon a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, then the first Tuesday
thereafter.
Dundee Latter Fair, for Cattle and Horses, is held on the 19th September
— the same rule applying as with the First Fair.
Bell's Fair— Feeing Market— is held on the first Friday of October.
N.B.— These Markets are held at the Fairmuir, Strathmartine road.
" Flit-Fridays," or the Term Feeing Markets, are held on 28th May and
28th November, if these dates fall on a Tuesday or Friday, failing which, on the
first Tuesday or Friday thereafter.
A Weekly Cattle and Sheep Market is held every Tuesday forenoon, at
the Cattle Market, Carolina port.
Market Days— Tuesday and Friday.