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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 August 1917, Page 2

Miss Joan Dixon-Poynder, only child of Lord Islington (late Governor of NewZealand), has adopted- the youngest child, born in hospital, of the rather large family of a French widow whose husband was killed at the front. Miss DicksonPoynder has been engaged on nursing work for a long time past. She helped in the hospital for officers which Lady Islington opened at her town house in Chesterfield Gardens, and since then has been a nurse at Rouen. She took her small charge to England1 some weeks ago to a cottage in Kent, where it is in charge for the present of a motkerly nurse. This is the outcome of some paper or other suggesting that ladies of means and no occupation should adopt babies instead of poodles," and lavish on poor little human beings some of the money and affection which a child would appreciate, but which frequently bores a dog. There was some corres- ' pondence on the matter, and one cynic probably got to the root of the matter when, he pointed out that when the lady got tired of the poodle she could sell or poison him, but that the law forbade such drastic courses with babes. Now, however, a girl of nineteen has braved convention, and led the way in what may prove a kind new fashion.