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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6664, 18 July 1928, Page 6

The abyssmal ignorance of fathers in the care of their very young progeny is traditional, a fact which even the humorous papers recognise, but the prizewinner is certainly a Maori at Oamaru, if Dr. Helene Easterfield is to bo believed.' At a meeting of the Christchurch Plunkot Society she told a scandalised assembly of ladies of a proud Maori who, on hearing of the birth of ,a son in the Oamaru Hospital, brought round a bag of bananas for the infant ’a consumption. It was not thought ne-' cessary to explain to' him that a child of that age could not eat a banana, so it is to bo presumed that the nurses enjoyed a fruit dessert. ’ Mr. A. W. Martin, the well-known Eupturo Specialist from Dunedin, is now on his twenty-third annual visit to the centres of ISTeW Zealand. He will be at the Club Hotel, Palmerston North, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 18th and 10th of July, and may be consulted free between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.*