ANTI-PLAGUE RULES
CHARGE AGAINST SHIP-MASTER
DISMISSED.
(11 TIUBB*PH.— PEESS A330CUT10.1.)
■ . ..; AUCKLAND, This Day. A charge against Captain Bolls, of the Niagara, for *n alleged breach of tile quarantine regulations under the Health Act, 1920, waa dismissed by Mr. Poynton, S.M The charge was that Captain Rolls failed to, remove the nets between the ship and the wharf, add to dose openings in the sido of the vessel while1 alongside the wharf from sunset to sunrise. The case; was dismissed on the ground that tho regulations did not apply to all vessels, but only to' such as were ordered .to carry put the regulations, and Captain Rolls had not been so notified: The Magistrate said: that' discrimination was reasonable, because some ships mig&t come, from ports jvhore. there were no rats and no infection.;
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 8
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133ANTI-PLAGUE RULES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 8
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