SCARCITY OF GIRLS
VILLAGE WITH ONLY TWO. Girls are so scarce in the villages of Baulking, Sparsholt, and Kingston Lyle, in the middle of the Berkshire Downs, that young men have to go many miles to do their courting. In Baulking, which has a population of about 150, there are only two eligible girls. At the other villages the position is just as bad. But Baulking likes being a village of bachelors. One of them said lately:— “We don’t want a crowd of girls here; where there are girls there are always trouble, and the beer is good, so why should we worry ? ” There was ~a wedding at Baulking a year ago last Christmas, and the people have pot finished talking about it yet. Children, too, are scarce, and at the village school, which costs the County Council over £2OO annually, there are only seven scholars, not one of whom lives in the parish, i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21357, 10 June 1931, Page 14
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