MAORI TRIPLETS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 128, 16 June 1937, Page 4

MAORI TRIPLETS

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Three Girls Born At Hawera FAMILY NOW ELEVEN

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HAWERA, Last Night. A Maori woman, Mrs. Tuteri Rangihaeata, of Ohangai Pa, gave birth to triplets, three girls, at a nursing homo in Hawera. The parents have eight other children. The event is the cause of much jubilation at the pa. Gifts and eongratulations are coming from suTroundhig pskeha settlers of the district. An appeal for assistance by way of baby clothing has been made. A claim for the King's bounty will be lodged by the parents. One baby was born just before midnight on Juue 13 &nd the other two just after that hour. "Three bonny girls, each exactly 51b. in weight and everyone here is as proud as a pouter pigeon," declared the ^midwife. The case has attracted the interest of the Plunket Society and the chari table aid offcer of the Hawera Public Hospital. Dr. T. M. Fitzgerald, who attended tho case, stated that the birth of triplets was comparatively rare,, occurriug once iu 6000 cases, according to British Empire statistics. So far as could be ascertained the only instance of the Eing's bounty being applied for previously in South Taranaki is that of a a family formerly at Manaia.