FEVER ON IMMIGRANT SHIP.
WATER AIDERS DECLINE TO WORK MAHANA.
PASSENGERS UNLOAD THEIR OWN BAGGAGE.
WELLINGTON, July 19. The Shaw, Savill liner Mahana, the first immigrant ship since the war, berthed at 1(> a.m. to-day, after lying two days in the stream with a number of eases of scarlet fever aboard. She brings nearly 1000 immigrants. About 700 are nominated, Including a large number of girls coming out to be married. There are 120 under the overseas settlement scheme. The rest are full-rate passengers. The fever cases have been quarantined on Somes Island. As a protest against allowing the Mahana to berth the watersiders decline to handle baggage and mails. The secretary of the •union states that though the Mahana was declared a clean ship, another case of 'fever had developed since. In view of the Niagara case in the epidemic the union hold that the passengers should he quarantined until the risk of infection had passed. In face of this decision the immigrants have agreed with the Department to unload the baggage themselves. The Auckland passengers yih| travel by to-night’s tramfor New Plymouth, Napier and Gisborne to-! morrow morning, and passengers for j South to-night. The Mahana is due] to sail for Sydney to-night.—Press Assn.. b
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5537, 20 July 1920, Page 5
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