MARRIAGEABLE SPINSTERS.
LIKELIHOOD OF SHORTAGE.
SCIENTIST’S PREDICTION.
LONDON, September 5.
A shortage of marriageable spinsters, compelling bachelors to marry younger girls,, was foretold by Sir William Beveridge, Director of the London. School of Economics and Political Science since 1919, at the Science Congress. He explained that it was due to the Great War period, when births declined, and probably there would be a shortage of 50,000 spinsters by 1943, causing the average marriage age of spinsters, namely, 25 years, to fall sharply. Sir William Beveridge prophesied a resultant slump in marriages in 1945.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 September 1937, Page 7
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