SHE’S HAD TWINS THREE TIMES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

SHE’S HAD TWINS THREE TIMES

28 -vear-old Wife’s Amazing Record Problem of Finding a New Home

Believe It or not. hut twin girls horn to Mrs Ivy Gunning, of Finsbury, the other day, have given tier the astonishing record of seven children. Including three sets of twins, since February. 1032. -Her latest, are girls, one of them weighing 41b lOoz and the other .Ml* 14oz. But Mrs donning, cheery 23-year-old wife of a packer earning £2 P s „ week, has two worries to face when she comes out of the City of London Maternity Hospital, where her latest babies were horn. Problem No. I : How Is she going to provide for her hlu: family out of her husband's small wage? Problem No 2: V\ I r< ' to find fresh living accommodation? It's all very well for the birth-rate experts to rub their hands, but. now that her family has increased to such a phenomenal extent, the two-roomed flat she rents for Us a week is no longer big enough for her. “Besides.” says her landlady, herself a great-grandmother, “under

n these new overcrowding laws T can’t c keep her there, now she has so many - children, though she Is a wonderful - mother, and keeps her home spote lessly clean. n Only One Boy. h Every day she lakes her children info the park, for she is a great be- - Hover In fresh air and exercise.’’ a Here Is Mrs Gonning’s record: n February, 1332. —One girl. n October. I;i :t. —Twin girls (one of I whom died 1. December. 1035.—Twins (hoy and j r Now.—Twin girls. i In addition, slio had a hoy. who' • 'i'-i shortl: before the arrival of her! eldest daughter Ivy. now nearly six. J v heard the news, ami like his wife 'is i wondering how six children are going ; I to he brought up on ifis a week' a Two of them have been sent to the! country by the local welfare centre, i - while the other two are being looked r after by Mr Conning's mother.