MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN IN NEW ZEALAND
LBTTRR FROM LONPON TO MAVQR OF AUCKLAND (p.a.) auckmnb September is. A £ e port m an English newspaper that flwre wgf a shortage of marriageable women in Auckland prompted g London woman to write to the Mayor (Mr J. A. C. Alium) asking if the position were corrupt. She writes: “I resigned myself to the future as an old maid because I aip more than 30 and over here there is a terriflp shortage of unmarried men. I am a brunette, a reasonable cook, home-lovmg.likp gpqrts, and.am a gqod listener. Ohl My eorreet age is al If one has .□ be exact in this statement. “I sincerely hope you dp not think. I am toq crazy in writing tq you like this.”
The Mayor intends to reply stating that Ahe report has given her the wrong impression.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 2
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