More seek marriage help

Press, 25 February 1977, Page 21

More seek marriage help

More persons last year took their marriage and personal problems to the Citizens Advice Bureau in Christchurch, the bureau has reported. Women made 73 per cent I of the 8442 calls to the) bureau last year — 1.3 per cent more than in 1975. Marriage problems ac-1 counted for 10.6 per cent of) [all inquiries, compared with; 9.5 per cent in 1975, said the) bureau organiser (Mrs Judyj Lunn). Family and personal difficulties made up 13.7 per cent of all inquiries last year (11; per cent in 1975. and welfare, [health, and medical queries; 113.3 per cent (9 per cent). I There were fewer general ■ information and accommodation inquiries thanks to other I telephone inquiry services, a better Tenants' Protection Association service, and the I “youth booth” in Cathedral | Square, she said. I Hqusing. consumer, and ! budget-advice services accounted for about the same proportion as in 1975. There were 590 education and employment inquiries. 7 per cent of the total, up 2 per cent. Mrs Lunn said that there had been an increase in the I number of persons with famI ily problems during the first [two weeks of January. Tension caused by parents and [children being at home at | the same time was the cause, she said. | Nuclear protest [ Hundreds of demonstrators ihave protested near Borleben. West Germany, against the 'provisional choice of that' (rural area for the disposal in [thick salt deposits of radioactive waste from nuclear I plants.—Borleben , Shah’s plans ,| The Shah of Iran will abdicate in favour of his son. . Crown Prince Reza, in 1987 : at the age of 68. according to .[a new biography. “The Shah,” '[by Margaret Laing, a British l biographer.—London.