Odd behaviour with multiple collection pagination

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Just updating to note progress for benefit of other readers. I note the following:

Calling front matter page title and adding lead text as a front matter description and removing all ‘hard coded’ headings and text from each layout template means each is generated accurately to html index files.

Front matter:

---
layout: base
title: Talks and Conferences
description: "Some leader text here"
pagination:
    enabled: true
    collection: talks
    permalink: /:num/
---

html / liquid:

<div class="">
  {%- if page.title -%}
    <h2 class="page-header">{{ page.title }}</h2>
  {%- endif -%}

  {%- if page.description -%}
    <p class="">{{ page.description}}</p>
  {%- endif -%}
</div>