FEWER MARRIAGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 9

FEWER MARRIAGES

VITAL STATISTICS FOR fyiARCH Fewer marriages, fewer deaths and a slight increase in births over the first three months of 1926, are shown in the vital statistics for this year. Marriages show a big drop, due perhaps to the lateness of Easter this year, the totals being: 1927, 580; 1926, 659. Tlie totals for the three months are as follows, last year’s figures being given in parentheses:—January, 172 (172); February, 202 (150); March, ISS (258). There has also been a decrease in the total of deaths registered. The total for the 1926 quarter was 404, as compared with 385 last quarter. The figures for the three months are: January, 110 (135): Februarv, 128 (134); March, 147 (135). The birth rate apparently remains steady, with a slightly upward tendency, the total for 1927 up to yesterday being 933. compared with 930 for tlie first quarter of 1926. The detailed figures are: —January, 330 (326); February. 272 (271); March, 331 (333). DUNEDIN FIGURES Press Association DUNEDIN, Thursday. For the month ended to-day the figures supplied by the local Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages were: Births, 174; deaths, 66; and .n xrriages. 63. * The figures for March of last year were: Births. 150: deaths. SO; marriages, 78. The figures for the January-February-March t quarter of this year were as follows, those for the corresponding quarter of 'ast year being given in parentheses: Births, 416 (410); deaths, 200 (233); marriages, 177 (205).