LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 196, Issue 22549, 6 January 1945, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fell On Wet Concrete When she slipped on wet concrete at her home yesterday afternoon, an elderly woman, Mrs Emily Edwards, of 19 Maeroa Street, Frankton, fractured a leg. She was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Aircraft Accidents

The increasing expansion of flying' services in New Zealand, both civil and military, has resulted in an increase in the number of deaths arising out of aircraft accidents, particularly since the war began. The latest figures given in the New Zealand Official Year Book show that from 1939 to 1942 there have been 131 deaths in Royal New Zealand Air Force and civilian air accidents. There were.lß in 1940, and 50 and 38 in 1941 and 1942 respectively. Birth Rate Tendency

Apart from a tendency to restrict the size of families in New Zealand, says the Government Statistician (Mr J. W. Butcher) in the Official Year Book, it appeared that the postponement of the birth of the first child was becoming a feature of modern times. Statistics of first births over a number of years, he said, indicated that the proportion occurring within one year after marriage was rapidly declining. Possibly due to the war, that tendency had become accelerated in recent years, and a particularly heavy fall was recorded In 1941.