Virus Closes School
(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, February 25. A mysterious virus forced the closing of the secondary department of the Mercury Bay District High School, at Whitianga for a day. More than a third of the pupils have been affected by the virus over the last week.
Seven pupils became ill at the school yesterday; t. o of them collapsed in the school yard. : The headmaster (Mr G. de IC. Lowe) ordered the secondary department closed yesterday afternoon while health authorities try to identify the virus.
Twenty of the. school’s 53 pupils have been ill, some of them several times. All recovered within a day. Eighteen of the victims are girls. The virus cause’, nausea, faintness, bleary eyes, immobility of the legs and general lassitud'
Cheese Returns.—Some British cheddar cheese producers this year are facing their worst post-war financial returns. According to Mr J. Alvis, chairman of the Cheddar and Caerphilly Farmhouse Cheesemakers’ Federation, this is due “solely to the flood of dumped, subsidised, imported cheese.”— London, February 25.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31923, 26 February 1969, Page 30
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