“The fashion of the old days was to have a very large family, and it seems tp me quite a pit v that that fashion lias gone out,” said Dr. William Irving, at a reunion at Christchurch of shipmates of the vessel Crusader. “I ran assure you that it was no joke for parents (o have to pack up all, their household possessions, look after., their children, and seek a new land. My father’s luggage weighed nine tons and there wero eight, in the family, hut 1 believe 1 am right in saying that sturdy stock was produced,” ho added.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18335, 1 March 1934, Page 5
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