SLEEPING SICKNESS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 18 August 1933, Page 5

SLEEPING SICKNESS

THIRD DEATH IN THE NORTH. ALARMING RUMOURS DEPRECATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, Aug. 18. The third death connected with the sleeping sickness outbreak occurred yesterday afternoon, a white child named Galloway expiring after being in a critical condition all the week. No further cases are reported, however, and the medical authorities deprecate alarming rumours which have been spread throughout the country and overseas. x RATANA’S PARTY RETURN HOME (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 18. Wiremu Ratana and party, whose North Auckland tour was cut short by the enforcement of health regulations designed to prevent the spread of sleeping sickness, passed through Auckland to-day en route home. There were over 50 in the party, including two tootball teams, a brass band and a number of women. A limousine and three trucks are carrying the party, one of whom said that the next stopping place would probably be Matamata. The football teams would play about six more matches before reaching home. Mr. E. T. Tirikatere, M.P., said that the Maoris had not defied the law and force would not be necessary as a few tactful words by Ratana would “do the trick.”