EXPECTED TWINS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1939, Page 7

EXPECTED TWINS

BUT TRIPLETS ARRIVED. SYDNEY, February 6. Triplets, two boys and a girl, were born at Crown Street Women’s Hospital yesterday. The boys weighed 51b 1 3-Bozs. and 31b 150z5., and the girl 41b 7£oz. Last night mother and babies were all doing well. The father, Mr Roy Timbrey, of Elarod Avenue, La is a half-caste aboriginal. Mrs Timbrey is a quarteraboriginal. She expected twins, and has only sufficient clothing ready for two babies. “I don’t know how she will manage about clothes for the third,” said a nurse at the hospital. The family is in very poor circumstances. They have three other children, being cared for by Mrs Timbrey’s sister. BABY TO 12-YEAR-OLD BRIDE. CHICAGO, February 6. Twelve-year-old Mrs Jennie Rota has given birth to a baby weighing 41b lloz. Fears for the life of the young mother were allayed after she had been given oxygen tent treatment. : QUADS BORN IN TEXAS. NEW YORK, February 6. Quadruplets have been born to a woman at Galveston, Texas. Their combined weight was 161 b. 2\ ozs. They are doing well. All were girls. The mother is 36. “I’ll sure have to work now,” said Mr W. E. Badgett, the bewildered father. > He and his wife have daughters aged 16 and 13. Doctors comment that quads are born onlv once in 727,000 births.