200,000 WAR MARRIAGES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 98, 18 January 1918, Page 2

200,000 WAR MARRIAGES

Sir .Bernard Mallet, Registrar-Gen-era!, addressing the Iloyal Statistical Society recently, said that in England aud Wales 200,000 people had married between August, 1914, and June, 1917, vhilo in Hungary, the only other bellificrent country for which complete figures were available, the figure was '600,000. Uv tile end of .lunf\, 1918, the United Kingdom would bavo lost by the fall in births over 500,000 potential lives, 10,000 per million of the population. For some unexplained reason England was remarkable for the low excess of male over female births, not only as compared with Continental countries, hut also with the other parts of the United Kingdom. A decline in the number of suicides was an interesting minor feature of the war period. Dr. and Mrs. Rendle, who have recently returned to New Zealand from Samoa, loft for Cbristcliurch on Tuesday en route for their home in Ashburton.

The marriage took placo on . January 14 at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, London, of Lieutenant John Clayton Hardie, Royal Field Artillery, elder son of Mr. William Hardie, late of Iquique, Chile, and Mrs. Hardie, ,50 Victoria Road, London, to Miss Helen Maud Stewart, only daughter of Mr. David Stewart, Union Bank of Australia, Wellington, and Mrs. Stewart.

The Saturday night entertainments for soldiers on leave from the camps, organised by the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Luke), are to he resumed now that the Christmas holidays are over, and on Saturday evening a dance will ho hold in the Town Hall. Excellent arrangements are being made to secure tbe enjoyment of all attending. Major and Mrs. Hntton have returned to Featlierston from a visit to Christchurch, where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Rhodos. Mrs. Strong, who has been spending some time in Nelson, left at the end of last week for Wellington, en route for China to rejoin her husband, who is on a missions!} - staif in that country. Her sister, Miss Blick, accompanies her as far as Sydney.