Searching for Sarah – 128

An almost 50-year-old Plunket record book with Hamilton connections is tugging at the heartstrings of staff and volunteers at the Cambridge Hospice Shop.

The Plunket Book

he book, numbered 128 on the cover, is dated 1975 and has a difficult-to-read name inside.  It was buried in a box of bingo, craft papers and cardboard dropped off to the Anzac St outlet a couple of months ago.

Knowing what it might mean to the family involved and thinking it may have been dropped off in error, they have since tried to find its owner. The team displayed it on the counter and popped something up on social media, but no-one has come forward to claim it.

The baby’s name reads ‘Sarah Jane Maquiness (?) of 2A Chelmsford St Hillcrest’.  Her birth date is listed as 8-6-75.

A close up of the Plunket Book.

“These things mean a great deal to people and we’d like to see it returned to its owner, or to someone in their family,” said Cambridge Hospice Shop manager Justine Webb-Elliott.

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Cambridge Hospice Shop manager Justine Webb-Elliott holding the lost Plunket book. Photo: Viv Posselt

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