AMERICAN CENSUS.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
LATEST REVIEW. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received' Dec. 9, 10.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Tlie! Census Bureau’s survey of marriage and divorce in the United States during 1924 shows the continuance of the declining number of marriages and an increase in the number of divorces that had! been noted previously. Marriages during 1924 totalled 1,178,206, as compared with 1,223,924 in 1923 —a decrease of 45,718, or 3.79 per cent. Only ten ‘States reported an increased number of marriages. The number of divorces had decreased! in eighteen States, but the increase in the other States more than offset these decreases.
(Surprise was caused by the figures showing New York, which was reputed to be the centre of wickedness, had but one divorce out of twenty-three marrfhges, leading all other sections of tlie country. Oregon and Nebraska show one divorce for every two. or three marriages.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 December 1925, Page 5
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