Triplets Born in South

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 2

Triplets Born in South

Wifli live children already, Mrs. F. : C. Meikle, of Christchurch, gave birth last week to triplets—a girl and two boys. The mother and tier three babies are all doing well. The daughter, Jennifer, weighs f>lb 11',0z.. Anthony Gib lOVoz. and John 61b. Orchid Craze in Sydney A craze for orchids lias developed in Sydney, and women often wear not one but several. A woman Labour member at the opening of Parliament wore a spray containing eight. Displays for charity have broken attendance records —35.000 people paid £750 to see one nine-day show, 27,412 paid £432 in three days, and there were others. At one £IO,OOO worth of blooms were exhibited by 40 growers, and at another one enthusiast gave 190 nots, and six tubs he had on show to be auctioned for a hospital. They raised £1327. For many years the idea had been built up in people's minds that tropical jungles wee the natural borne of orchids, one authority explained. Bound Sydney, however, orchids grow under lmshhouse conditions and at the base ,of deciduous trees.