MARRIAGE BOOM-IN WAR TIME
REVEALED IN VITAL STATISTICS. Following are tho vital statistics of Wellington for tho month ended yesterday, tho figures for August of last year being also given :— •■.■,..,.." 1914 : 1913 ■ Births •.. 210 146 Deaths 93 60 Marriages' ...-....,. 96 '& Marriages (in office) 32 20 The figures for the past eight months of tho year are also given in comparison with those for the corresponding period of last year:— • * -•■ ■ ■ 1914 1913 Births. ...V............ 1428. 1311 , '• Deaths ■..:..:...... 605 £37 . Marriages. ■..-...... 723 642 Marriages (in office) 198 162
... It will be noticedi,that>.an increase of marriages has been recorded for the periods under review, and that the increase' under, that "heading-.for August is practically the' measure 'of tho increase for. tihe entire eight months of tho current year. This is said to have been' caused* by an' unusually large number..of ■ pending. weddings having been pushed forward on account of several of the bridegrooms having_ offered their services to their country in troubled areas abroad.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 1 September 1914, Page 8
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