“ON THE SHELF’’

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 36, 18 May 1938, Page 1

“ON THE SHELF’’

CURLS .ST r YY LONG KR FIGURES FOR ENGLAND LONDON, l*Vli. 7. —Though record Lumbers ol‘ couples are marrying, there arc 1.915,090 women in England and Wales who can never have husbands. And all the other women will have to wait a little longer “en the shell"’ than their mothers did, because men are showing a tendency to keep their independence for a year or two longer than they used to do. 'J'hese art* deductions drawn from the Registei-Ge 11 or a 1 ’ s ee mni en t <*r ry oil his 1935 statistical review. Other figures he gives, however, point to the fact that girls of the next generation or so will have a hotter chance of marrying than the presentday girl. In 1935 there wore 1050 boys born to every, 1030 girls—a ratio that lias been exceeded only once before. Nearly 000,000 babies were born, 1 LOO more than in the previous year, but a comparison with the figures of many otlier countries shows that wo bad the lowest birth-rate of all except three —Norway, Sweden and Austria.