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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I will ask Ma.....I was under the impression that it was just for the first child and it was ten bob(which was quite a bit back then). I know that we didn't get much.
Ma worked at three jobs to try to make ends meet. I also,remember that she was checked out at Accy Vic because they thought she might have TB....she was very thin.It was because she would have a cup of very weak coffee and a fag instead of a meal....so that we could have what food there was.
It was certainly a very tough struggle.
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Sorry Margaret, when i said it was five shillings for every child after the first, i should have stated that was for the years mid 40s to early 50s. I thought that it was about that era you were relating too. I got more than five shillings for mine but that was from the mid sixties.