THE MAHENO'S INVALIDS

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15479, 5 January 1916, Page 7

THE MAHENO'S INVALIDS

BREAKING BOUNDS IN AUCKLAND. „ (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, January 4. It was reported in tho Auckland newspapers at the week-end that some of tho invalided soldiers who returned to Now Zealand by tho Mahono and were placed in quarantine by - the . Public Health Department had been breaking bounds. Several men who r; were regarded as possible "carriers" of j' enteric fever, made their way into the jf' city in defiance of orders, and tho men j?_," as a body complained rather bitterly jV, against the restrictions placed upon !'<•• them immediately upon their return to j.-,their native country. v''Referring to this matter to-day. the of i*iibxic Health (the Hon. '' vt» U8 sell) told a roporter that % Department was responsible for the men as -patients, not as soldiers. Tho duty, of maintaining discipline and se-curing-obedience to ordors issued in +!? e 'J!^ rcsts of miblio health lay with Ijj j authorities. Mr Russell 1 , nb< l u , t of the re--had broken l>oun<ls on the N?n n '^ mval in Auckland.. i,„ F?P had overstayed their kli If 6 ¥ e °t night to tho wern mm j. cre _ ~^ Q enteric patients sufferS thongh tlle - v ,vero nofc ™JeniZ n^ SdVC \* ,,d had asked for vide!] 'A n^ ers 'ui j- 1 iiad 1,00,1 P ro " hare bein nf " ® did n °t seem to en of a serious character.