“Paid birth announcements are put in the news papaers by ANYONE WHO PAYS FOR THEM”
True, but in this case, these were not paid birth announcements. See post #24 for a good description of how these came to be published. If you check the 2 newspapers’ listings, they are identical in content and listing order. This suggests the papers were simply re-printing a list distribution by DOH of births occurring during the past week or whatever.
Then why were only part of all the births in HI listed in those papers?
I can’t remember the figures but very recently someone posted how many births there were that August in HI, and only some are in the newspapers. Others are not.