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How many working days in year 1908?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1908 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1908.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1908
2. Day after New Year's Day : Thursday, 2 January, 1908
3. Auckland Day : Monday, 27 January, 1908
4. Waitangi Day : Thursday, 6 February, 1908
5. Good Friday : Friday, 17 April, 1908
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 20 April, 1908
7. Anzac Day Observance : Monday, 27 April, 1908
8. Queen's Birthday : Monday, 1 June, 1908
9. Labour Day : Monday, 26 October, 1908
10. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1908
11. Boxing Day Observance : Monday, 28 December, 1908

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Anzac Day : Saturday, 25 April, 1908
2. Boxing Day : Saturday, 26 December, 1908