In the matter ol marriage, writes Mr Harold Spender in the London “ Daily Chronicle,” there is going to be a new social, crisis which must be boldly faced- It is in this country women are now immensely more numerous than men. The case, was already bad enough before the war. There were even then in this country over a million more women than men. There are now quite two millions more women than men. . Before the war there wore over a million widows in this country; there are now probably a million and a half. The net effect is that there are probably some three or four million women of lont-riatrenhle . n«»«' no,,- nrrniarHpd in
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12748, 18 September 1919, Page 9
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