THE IMMIGRANTS ON THE MAHANA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 6

THE IMMIGRANTS ON THE MAHANA

UST OF QUARANTINED PASSENGERS SHIP TO BERTH TO-DAY , The Shaw, Savlll, and Albion lis or Mfihana, which arrived in the stream on Friday,night with a large number of immigrants on board,.will berth at Jf0.,1 South Queen's Wharf at 8 o'clock this morning. As a result of the medical examination "* -it was found that 18 of the poisengern were suffering from scarlet fever, and there, were also 47 "contacts," amongst : the latter., boing three people suspected to be carrying the disease. Patients 'and '"contacts were transferred to Somes

Island on Saturday, and the vessel was thoroughly fumigated. Tho remainder , i of the passengers will land this, morning, and arrangements for their accommodation have wen made by the Immigration Department. • . Of tho 971 passengers brought by _thu Mahana, 700 were nominated by relatives or friends in the Dominion, 120 weru .. granted passages under the Overseas Set- ' "tlement Committee's scheme, and 151 were full-fare passengers. Those travelling under tho auspices of tho Overseas Settlement Committee comprised. 45 men, 23 wometn, and 47 children. During the , voyage, a female full-rate passenger died, ! and when the vessel was ct Balboa, on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal, a Miss Stack'was accidentally drowned. , There were three births on board during •tjhe'/trlp. i Names <5f the passengers suffering from scarlet r.fover'' are as follow:—1[. , M'Kechnie, Mrs. P. Campbell and child, Mass I. Deane, Miss Allardyce, Mr. and Mrs. North and two children, 0. Foun"■tain (aged 5), W. Bidout (youth), E. Bor- . row (aged 8), B. Cock shoot (aged 5), Miss WV, Ghilcla, Mr. J. M'lCechnie, Miss M. Green, Miss L. Greenslade. ' ■ The following are. the "contacts" who hare been removed to quarantine:—Mrs. "" M. M'Kechnie and two children, Master A. Allardyce, Mrs. Shaw and two childpen, Miss B. Wimpenny, Miss D. Holmes, ■ Mis. Allardyce and two daughters, Mr. .'Allardyce, junior, Miss A. Sunter; Miss A. Docker,'QDrs. Holmes, Mr. and' Mrs. MTTeohnie, Mrs. and Miss Henderson, Mrs. Cockshflflt, Mifs M. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Fountain and one child, Miss C. "Gunri, Miss N. Mackay,'Miss M. Fallows, Mr. and Mrs. Borrows and two children,, Mr. and Mrs. H.. Childs and five children, Mrs. Mackieand child, Mrs. Brooke " and child,. Miss Hills, Messrs. Shaw and r Butler (stewards), Miss Jones (stewardess), Miss W. Cole (passenger stewardess).