SIX BOYS ADOPTED.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5043, 22 October 1926, Page 4

SIX BOYS ADOPTED.

“A LEAGUE OF NAfFIONS.”

EACH A DIFFERENT NATIONALITY

A wealthy English merchant andhis wife, who have no chliidren of their

own, have adopted six orphaned and

destitute young boys whose parents were formerly foreigners, with the intention of bringing them up together as if they were their own jsons. The family is: Johnnie (England), Pierre (France), Camillo (Italy), Carlos (Spain), Ignace (Poland), and Jan (Sweden). The youngest is six months and the eldest six years. All, are Brtish subjects, the parents of the five last-nam-ed having been naturalised. The family was supplied by the National Children Adoption Association, the secretary of which s,aid to a reporter :—

“It is very seldom that we are asked for children Of foreign descent, and we were not a little astonished at the request for so many. We had no difficulty, however, in providing the children, whom we handed over to their new parents as soon as they came into our care—at intervals of six months or a year.

“The ‘league of nation’s;’ as we always refer to the children, have become a wonderfully happy family, and it seems that the experiment is going to be a great success.”