TWINS BORN, AT HOUSE, AT ANNEXE
TWINS were born, one 15 miles from the other, on Tuesday
The office of Town Taxis Ltd, Whangarei, received an urgent call from Ngunguru about 9.45 on Tuesday morning and a car left immediately. On its arrival at Ngunguru a man and his wife —she an expectant mother—were picked up for the journey to the Whangarei maternity annexe.
As the car was about to move off, the district health nurse (Miss P. J. Wood), who was on her way to the Ngunguru School, asked the driver for directions and. while there, she noticed the woman passenger's condition.
there about 10 minutes after the mother's arrival. When the child had been safely delivered. Miss Wood, judging that the mother was going to bear twins, asked that she be taken to the annexe.
Miss Wood, seeing that the baby was to be born in a short time, asked the woman if there was a house to which she could go. born.
The father and mother, together with the new-born babe, the driver puu .Tea ag] paaa;ua -as.tnu oqi pue were rushed to Whangarei where shortly afterwards, the other child was born. This morning both babies and the mother are none the worse.
Luckily the husband’s brother lived nearby, and the baby was born
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1947, Page 5
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