The untold story of New Zealand's first set of surviving quads JEREMY OLDSSir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19390215-53-3 The Johnson siblings eating ice cream on their porch in 1939. Supplied Bruce Johnson, one of the Johnson Quadruplets, at his Auckland home. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19380309-54-1 The Johnson family move into a new home at Wakari in 1938 Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19370106-54-3 The Johnson Quads photographed at Christmas, 1937 Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19370929-53-4 The Johnson Quads, pictured here at two years old with members of Dunedin's singing community, were considered New Zealand's best-known children. "When they told my father the news, he didn't know what quads were," says Bruce Johnson, the first born of the four babies who came to be known as the Johnson Quads. To the world they were the Johnson Quads, but Bruce says they felt more like triplets.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2017 01:14 UTC