TWINS BORN IN CAR
.MAORI FAMILY’S THOFRLKS This week was one of sadness for a Maori family in Gisborne. A\ lien she was approaching the time for confinement the mother, with her husband. took tlie family of four children to a sister at Mahia and on Sunday they returned to Gisborne. On Monday they received' a communication that their 17-month-old daughter had died at Mahia, and made haste to travel south and learn the details of the child’s illness. AYhile travelling on the road to Mahia their troubles increased by the mother giving birth to twins in the ear. Only one of the new-born babies survived.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 45, 17 June 1938, Page 2
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106TWINS BORN IN CAR Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 45, 17 June 1938, Page 2
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