FATAL YELLOW FEVER CASE AT PAHIATUA.
DREAD TROPICAL DISEASE CLAIMS YOUNG MAN. LATELY RETURNED FROM COLOMON ISLANDS. The danger of Europeans working in tropical climates was manifest in rather a tragic manner in the Pahiatua public hospital on Tuesday morning when a young man named Leslie Sunnex, aged 23, succumbed to an attack of yellow fever after being ill but a few days. It seems that the young man, whose parents reside at Pahiatua, had spent some months working for the Kauri Timber Com any at the Northern Solomon Islands. While there he contracted yellow fever but shook off the illness after a while and returned to New Zealand a short time ago. About a week ago he was again stricken and became violently ill, going into hospital on Friday. The disease is very common among Europeans in the Solomons and is said to occur is often as 14 times. Mr. Sunnex was quite confident that h» would recover but evidently the malady had too great a hold and he failed to survive. His father is Mr. J. 0. Sunnex, a carrier, of Pahiat m. The funeral takes place to-morrow
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1935, Page 8
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