Father of Twenty-one Children Still Active Footballer
Father of seventeen living chil- : dren. Torn Edmonds was pre-, vailed upon to turn out for his, old Club. Ohaeawai. in the Bay of Is- j lands senior Rugby championship, on Saturday. Starting football long after i most moderns have knocked off. he ! became a great enthusiast, and rear- j laxly led the Ohaeawai pack, with his two sons, Harry and John, nihil I the season before last. The two boys are ! now playing for Taumaranui. Mr and Mrs Ednlonds, who arc ' comparatively young, have act a large- j family example to the remainder of! New Zealand. They have had 21 1 children, but only 17 are living, the! youngest being an infant. Mr Edmonds farms a section of land ' at. Ngawha, on the Kaikohc-Ohaca- i wai Ro'ad, and his acres of well-tilled I land testify to* his industry. Helping j him, when they are not engaged in i kicking a football, are those of his j sturdy and healthy children who re- j main at homo. Although Mr Edmonds declares that with such a large family, and now j that Jig is* in the early forties, ho j should have reached the age of dis- j ore,ion so far as active Rugby is con- j corned, he would still be turning out each Saturday but for the fact that his work prevents him from getting home in time to play at the weekends. However, he could not resist having a flutter on Saturday. Many good critics, and with ample reason, regarded him as the outstanding - forward on the field. He certainly showed the young ones how, and scored a splendid try. Mr Edmonds represented the Bay in 1936, and. if able to afford the time now. would undoubtedly don the representative jersey again. It is Mr Edmonds’ opinion that, in view of the necessity for populating our vacant spaces, something in the nature of assistance for large families should be provided.
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Northern Advocate, 26 May 1938, Page 11
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