EPIDEMIC COMMISSION.
THE TALUNE'S CREW. Tho local manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, in a letter to Mr. (Jeorge Elliot, chairman of tho Epidemic Inquiry Commission, writes:—"Permit mc to give an emphatic contradiction to a statement published in this day's "Now Zealand Herald," the utterance being attributed to you. It reads as follows: 'In regard to the voyage of tucVTnlune the chairman said the vessel left Auckland for Samoa in October, and had been given a dean bill of health, notwithstanding the fact that two firemen had been carried ashore prior to the vessel's sailing.' There is not the least foundation of truth in this. Two men bad temperatures when the medical examination took place, prior to the Taluno sailing for Suva. One was a fireman, and the other the ship's carpenter. They came ashore at tho suggestion of the port health officer. The carpenter, prior to going homo after leaving the ship, wandered about tho wharves, looking for a man to take his place on the Talune for the voyage, and subsequently went to his home in a train car."
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 164, 11 July 1919, Page 6
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