PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 258, 29 October 1921, Page 14

PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS.

more advice to cities. fj»y Telesrapli- —Parliamentary ißc.porte?.) \VELLIXGTOX, this day. The Minister of Public Health was ur"cd bv Dr. Thackcr to-day to take special, extraordinary and urgent precautions to prevent «'C introduction o plague into New Zealand in new of the alarming reports from Australia. The member for Cliristchurch East pointed out that there was a danger trom rats also from animals which earned fleas, as the latter conducted the disease irom rats to human beings. . "1 am very anxiously watching the position,replied the Hon. C. J. Parr, £ho indicated that he had that morning had a conference with the head of the Department with the object ot making ,11 ore stringent the precautions already adopted. Everything would he done to keen the disease out of the country, and he wished to repeat his former warning to the cities that the rat plague should be exterminated in the main ports and municipality ffcUin „ ton Central, mentioned that he had received a petition from his constituents relating to a fov run in the city which was a breeding "round for rats, but which the municipal authorities had not been able to remove. \[r Parr replied that this was undoubtedly a case for the municipality of which Mr. Eraser was a member. (LauglitCJlr. Fraser explained that the City Council had done what it could, but seemed to have insuflicicnt power in the matter.