SEVENTEEN CHILDREN
Mother To ‘Retire*
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, March 8.
A housewife at Cooma, in the Snowy Mountains, who has given birth to her seventeenth child, says it is about time she “retired.”
Her husband agrees. She is 41-year-old Mrs Kathleen Barry, wife of a coach driver, Mr Terry Barry.
Both mother and daughter are fit and well. The girl, Monica Louise, was 71 lb when born at the Cooma Hospital on Monday. Sixteen of the Barry children, nine girls and seven boys, are living. One died a day after being bom several years ago.
Their eldest child, a daughter, aged 20, is married and living at Cabbage Tree, Victoria. The second eldest, also a girl, is working in Sydney. The family budget presents something of a problem. It costs them about 60 dollars a week for food. Their weekly groceries include 52 loaves of bread, a half or sometimes a whole sheep, 30 bottles of milk and half a bag of potatoes.
Egg “Poacher”.—Use a potato masher to lift out poached eggs from a saucepan, if you do not have a special poacher.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 2
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