LONDON’S ‘MARRIED’ DISCREPANCY.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1926, Page 3

LONDON’S ‘MARRIED’ DISCREPANCY.

LONDON. December 20. Pu/.zle—find 12,000 husbands. This is the new problem for London. There is no murder mystery, wholesale holocaust, or matrimonial agency advertisement about it : it is a plain statement of fact that there are 11,903 husbands missing ill London. The disclosure lias boon made l(v the London Comity Council in its Statistical Abstract for London—l 924-25. In this volume they state that there are 877,298 married women in London, hut only 865,300 married men. Where have the missing husbands gone? It is not easy to mislay 12.000. Where are they? CHILDREN’S CHURCH.

LONDON. December 20

A cliildren-onlv church, held in the Aligns Institute, behind the West Ham Central Mission Memorial Church. Barking-road, E.. where 14-years-old deacons keep a still younger congregation in order, and where soloists some only 8 years old, sing to 500 children, has become so popular that a large disused church, also in Barking-road, is being converted into a children s church. , It will he attended by children under 14 venrs of age. The supervisor, the Rev C. G. Hutchinson, will give nn address; all the rest will lie done by children, as in the present church. The Rev. R. Rowntree Clifford, supervisor of the mission told a reporter yesterday that children read the lessons, lead the prayers, and form a committee to manage the affairs of the church.