MORALS IN SCOTLAND
SCATHING INDICTMENT SPEAKER'S ALLEGATIONS LONDON. Feb. 7 " One out of every five children in Scotland is born out of holy matrimoijy," said Major A. R. Haverfield, at the annual meeting in Glasgow of the Galloway .Diocesan Council. Attacking the appalling immorality in Scotland, the speaker asserted that illegitimate births in Wigtown County totalled 178.8 per 1000, compared with the highest English figure of 42 per thousand.
Major Haverfield estimated that 12 to 13 per cent of Scottish marriages were irregular, but were regularised later by shprrif's warrant. He blamed ignorance combined with the cinema and modern novels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 13
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