DRIVEN FROM HOME
DEBT, LOVE OR AD VENTURE. Figures just published in Paris show that 27,000 people disappeared there in the last twelve months, mostly because of debt, love affairs or in search of adventure. More than 25,000 people were reported missing in New York city last year, including 3500 boys and 450 girls. Inquiries made by a Daily Mail reporter reveal that in London an ave- , rage of twelve people are reported to the police daily as missing, and in the whole of the country 15,000 women j and girls are reported missing each j year. The majority of the missing Londoners are women and girls, but the proportion of those never traced is less than one in 1000. Less than 10 per cent. remain untraced for more than a fortnight, and rarely do they remain untraced for two or three months. Of the missing persons in the whole of England less than 2 per 1000 are never heard of again. Men vanish principally because of domestic troubles and because they find their homes unendurable. But many have business worries. Fewer men than women return, one reason being that it is easier for a man to earn a living.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 15 June 1932, Page 6
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