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A. MAYOR’S EXPERIMENT. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 29. The Mayor of Southend decided to try an experiment with a matrimonial bureau, but he has closed it in desperation. He received more than 200 letters to-day. He states: ,s The business is beyond us. We must stop. I did not realise that there are so many people in the world wishjng to be married. I’ve definitely finished with this Cupid business, being frightened of the consequences. A bonfire will be made from the thousands of letters received.” A Glasgow man wrote: “I would like to get fixed up, because I am already £2l in debt.” Regarding the marriage bureau, it transpires that in a sympathetic moment-, thp Mayor promised to help John Sinclair, an unemployed Halifax man to find a wife who would give him work. Hundreds of women offered to do this'. As Sinclair could only take one wife and one job, some hundreds of other unemployed men wrote to the Mayor, expressing their willingness to wed the remainder of the women who had jobs as dowries.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 March 1930, Page 3
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