MARRYING YEAR.

Mataura Ensign, 12 February 1916, Page 5

MARRYING YEAR.

.'oO.fXiO WFLDDIXfiS IX 12 MONTHS. Statistics in Britain lor the prise 12 months are nor yet available, hut British authorities agree that owing to the u;ir it has been a record year tor marriage*. •"Two out of three of our weddings are kliaki weddings." said a London registrar recently. ••.Many weddings have been crowded into liHo which in normal times would have been spread over several yean-. f suppose there never have been >uch inducements as n»w for young people to get married.'' ".November was our busiest month in the granting of marriage licenses,*' said an official in Doctors' Commons. "We issued over -100 licenses trom the office in November, and the December total will not be very far short of that. Tn. pre-war times \Ci) licenses in a month would have been very exceptonal.*' A registrar estimated tliat the number of marriages in England and Wales during the past vear was prohab)v\about .nO.OO;). "J'he actual number in I!>J4 was 291,0-27, and in If)].l it was '2:50,583.