ADOPTED BABY’S £40,000

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4823, 16 March 1925, Page 3

ADOPTED BABY’S £40,000

GROWING DEMAND FOB INFANTS.

Mole and more people are wanting to adopt, babies, especially baby girls. According to Miss Andrews, .the honorary director of the National Childdren Adoption Association, of .19 Sloane Street, S.W., there is a waiting list of more than 120 people anxious to adopt children fulfilling their particular requirements. Many of these people are prosperous, and the adopted child will bo treated as’ their heir. Recently a fair-haired, blue-eyed boy of four was taken by a childless family, the head of which at once, settled £40,000 upon him. In another case, after a month’s trial, which the association insists upon, £20,000 was settled on an infant girl, " Families adopting children often demand peculiarities in babies which are hard to find," Miss Andrews told a Daily Mail reporter. “I remember one would-be adopter .who would only take a child with a squint, as there always had been a squint in that particular family.” • , Mr James Inglis, of Glasgow, has given approximately £50,000 to Trades lionise to form a new branch of the Drapers’ Fund, from,, which rewards of £5O each are to be paid to-people who have adopted children.

To qualify for the reward the. adopter must have had the child in his family, according it the same station of life as his own, for at least five years.—‘‘Daily Mail. ’