SLOW BUT SURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 14

SLOW BUT SURE.

BABY'S PROGRESS. REPORT FROM KARITANE. WALTER OOKNELL, 3LB IIOZ, Walter Connell, now aged 20 days, is making progress. Slow, but nevertheless sure. Baby Connell, it will be remembered, surprised everyone on New Year's Eve when he came into the world a little ahead of schedule, while his parents, Air. and Airs. Connell, of Clevedon, were spending a holiday at Great Barrier Island. At that time he was hurried into an aeroplane specially chartered from Alangere. When Dr. R. Nicks set off from Okupu, Great Barrier, oil the return to Auckland, Walter wag only two hours and a half of age. He was landed from the aeroplane parked in cotton wool and enclosed comfortably in a mail r>ag. «oon he was sound asleep at the Karitane Hospital in Mount Albert. Now. after nearly a month at Karitane* Walter seems to be doing fairly well. Only 2ilb at birth, he has been doing his best to catch up on his ordinary full-time fellows, with the result that he now tips the scale at 31b lloz. He is still reclining peacefully in his special temperature-controlled cot at the hospital. When inquiries were made from the matron of Karitane about two weeks ago,' it was stated that in many similar cases the infant often makes good progress for a couple* of weeks and then halt#. However, you cannot keep * goad man down for long, and Walter would appear to have negotiated the difficult first hurdle. _ Even so, it will be many months before he catches up on his weight. In the meantime he is feeding and sleeping contentedly. Walter has now almost got over the excitement of his dramatic 'plane trip from the Barrier. The commotion which his arrival,, caused, as an urgent dispatch by mailbag has left him unspoiled.