WHOSE BABY?
« FOUND ON DOORSTEP. Dominion Special. Christchurch, November 18. “Phyllis Brown, please keep baby till I can call for her.” So ran the wording of u note found with a baby cn the doorstep of the Salvation Army Maternity Home in Beale.y Avenue on Tuesday night. On going upstairs at nine o’clock a member of the staff heard a baby crying. She w’ent down again to investigate, and found a dress basket in which was a baby between three and four weeks old. It was a very small child, weighing only five ami threequarter pounds. In the dress basket was a large quantity of baby’s clothes of good quality- Some of them bore the initials, “P. 8. With these were a woman’s dressing gown, a woman’s bed jacket, and a new baby's shawl of neat workmanship. Although small and not in the best of health, the baby had apparently been well cared for. It was clean, so were its clothes.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 16
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161WHOSE BABY? Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 16
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