5 SEPTEMBER 1941, Page 4

An arithmetician has convicted me of faulty , arithoi (which, in

fact, any child could do any day). I said last wed in quoting statistics' of the married and unmarried sections d the population at the last census, that a good deal more ttil half the marriageable population remained unmarried. I shoal have said,. more than half as many remained single as married. The numbers were 479,62o and 789,316 respeclis joys