AUCKLAND TRIPLETS
41 LB. TO SLB. AT BIRTH SENT TO KARITANE (Per Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, this day. Satisfactory progress is being made by the .triplets born in the Auckland Hospital on Monday night to Mrs. R. Blake. The children have been transferred to the Karitane Home, Mount Albert. Already they have been named Margaret, Michael and Anthony. Margaret is the heaviest weighing over 51b, but her brothers are both over the 4llb mark. The journey from the hospital to the Karitane Home was made in a special basket in an ambulance. The babies were lying on a special mattress with hot water bottles. Special precautions were taken to safeguard tiie infants during their transit from ino ward to the ambulance.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 14
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