7,000,000 MEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11757, 22 July 1916, Page 8

7,000,000 MEN.

MILITARY AGE FIGURES FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. Figures which are of great interest in view of the coming National Register arc to be found in the summary tables of the census of 1911 for England and Wales, which were issued as a Blue Book recently. The total papulation was 36,070,492, of whom 17,445,608 were males and 18,624,884 were females. Everyone will turn to Table 29, which shows the number of persons of each sex at each year of and in fiveyear groups. Here are the numbers in the fiveyear groups between the ages of fifteen and sixty-five Number of Persons. ' Age. " Male. Female. 15-20 . . 1,654,895 1,681,720 20-25 . . 1,502,652 1,673,006 25-30 . . 1 ,'155,783 1,623,277 30-35 . . 1.375,872 1,501,303 85-40 , . 1,261,432 1,351,838 4045 . . 1,075,076 1,157,535 45-50 , . 926,102 '999.^87 50-55 .• . 768,231 83*;449 55-60 . . 608,005 670,426 60-65 . . 477,151 542,803 The total number of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five was over seven millions, of whom more than half were unmarried There were 102 persons 100 or more years old, twenty-nine being men and seventy-three women.

The youthful orator came down from the platform at the close of his address, and spoke to a cprtain man who lingered in his seat. " I want to thank you," he said, " for the close attention you gave to my remarks. Your upturned face was an inspiration to me. lam sure you never changed your earnest attitude during my lecture." '•'No," said the man, "I have a stiff neck."