GRANT OF £75
JOHNSON QUADRUPLETS By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, May 2. Word has been received that the Government has made a grant of £75 for the care and maintenance of the Johnson quadruplets. The correspondent of an English newspaper recently visited the little village of Ham, near Deal, Kent, to tell Mrs Johnson that quadruplets had been born to her daughter-in-law in Dunedin. The grandmother was overjoyed. “Well I never,” she said with a chuckle. . ic w‘ 1 have her hands full. Whatever will the poor girl do? Now I have got twenty grandchildren and five great grandchildren. I and my husband hav: lived in this cottage for forty-one years. My husband is 77 but still works on the farm. I am 75, but your good news makes me feel young again.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20098, 3 May 1935, Page 9
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132GRANT OF £75 Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20098, 3 May 1935, Page 9
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