N.Z. COUPLE AND BABY HAVE 15,000MILE NIGHTMARE TRIP
LONDON, Nov. 18 (Recd. 6p.m).— A young New Zealand couple arrived in London last week after a nightmare journey with a tiny baby from the fringe of the Gobi Desert, says the "Sunday Dispatch.’’ The journey followed three years’ life in an isolated mud hut village in the extremes of heat and cold. It was in these conditions that Mrs. Barbara Spencer gave birth to her first baby, Michael. With her husband, 29-year-old Dr. Robert Spencer, she went from New Zealand to North China to establish a hospital and train Chinese to run it. The journey to London “over passes 10,000 feet high, sleeping in in-sect-ridden huts, and travelling from dawn to dark in terrible discomfort, took seven months.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 20 November 1950, Page 8
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