VITAL STATISTICS
SATISFACTORY FIGURES.
A slight -preponderance of the births jn March over those for the corresponding month of -last year is encouraging, l'or the three months now gone this year lags behind last in the matter of births, but there is little difference in the number of Carriages solemnised, "lie figures for March are:— w . „ WIS. 1919. Births 150 163 Deaths 7G 77 Marriages ...: 92 .88 Marriages in offices 20 -27 .The figures for the first quarter of ,919 compared with those of 1918 is as follows :— , 1918. 1919. Births 553 493 Deaths 212 352 ' Marriages 240 235 Marriages in office ... 83 83 The registrar for Wellington states that the number of marriages solemnised in the office seemed to be increasing. During March he was called upon to officiate twenty-seven times—an average of one aday—and oinine day lie married no fewer than half 'a dozen couples.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 5
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147VITAL STATISTICS Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 5
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