Marriageless Girls Prefer Pensions to Clothes
Endownment insurance policies are taking the place of the bottom drawer among working girls of Stanley and Consett, Co. Durham, to whom marriage has become only a remote prospect. Girls who have been either crossed in love, or have never had a sweetheart, when they turn thirty now begin to think of the future. Numbers at work in offices, shops and factories are denying themselves pleasure and clothes in order to pay half crown and five shillings premiums to provide a pension in the days when they will have to depend on their own resources. The local Registrar, Mr William Armstrong, told the Daily Mirror that during the past twelve months mat res at Stanley have dropped 40 per cent., and an insurance agent said during that period scores of girls had taken out endownment policies. The reason for it all la that since January, 1936, over 400 young men, unable to get work, have left for other parts of the country.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 149, 25 June 1937, Page 15
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