It was Good Friday, but there was little hint that it was Eastertide on the paper. The reduced page count was a clue, but it wasn’t until page 8 with an article entitled “Abnormal Easter” that there was anything seasonal in the paper. An account of the royal Maundy service at Westminster Abbey on page 9, some passing mentions of it being a holiday period in the Health & Sunshine resort pound up on page 10, the Easter fruit situation on page 11 (“to provide a plenitude of cheap fruit for Easter seems beyond the art of man”) and “Patriotic Work for Easter” in page 12’s Poultry Culture column added to the seasonal reports, but they were far more subdued than a year earlier, even though there was little new of substance in terms of fighting.