FEWER MARRIAGES

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 7

FEWER MARRIAGES

POSITION IN SYDNEY SLOGAN OF ECONOMY It has been placed 011 record with expressions of regret from various quarters that there Hus been a iaiting off in tlie number of weddings in Sydney. Tile stores are aware of tlie fact, and dressmakers ac-ho their finding, sighing over it. Caterers seem to have more direct contact with the public. They say that there is not only a reduction in the number of weddings, but that some oif those who are being wed do so with the word “economy” 011 tfc.eir lips. Tile result is that tenders for wedding breakfasts have have to fie much more carefully considered, ©veil for “the big occasions. ’ ’ Hie clergy do not speak about these things—not t° the mail ill fbo street—but ill conversation with friends they admit tlie the condition which seems to lie dominating most countries of the civilised world mani fests itself in connection with marriages. House and land agents aro definite in their statement ft-iat “now is tlie time to wed,” seeing that rents aro lower than ever before in recent decades. Bungalows can be had foi what was recently the rent of halt a dwelling.