Best Girl Wins
How close does New Zealand tally to this interesting English marriage census? Here is the table: Nurses go off first -40% under twenty-one-blame the uniform! Actresses come next-most of them by the time they are twenty-three. Domestic workers are third, and usually
marry about twenty-five. Typists come next-twenty-five to twenty-nine. Shopgirls are ranked fifth in order — and school teachers come last, with the marriage age between twenty-seven and thirty-five.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 43
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72Best Girl Wins New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 43
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