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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2171, 2 September 1920, Page 3

“There is a.remole possibility of plague coming to Kew Zealand’/ said Dr. Fletcher Telford, speaking on the provisions of the Public Health Bill, at a conference in Christchurch. “They have plague .in Liverpool, Paris, the Argentine, Egypt, nearly all Eastern Asia, and various ports in South America. Mexico, and the United States, and in certain South Sea islands. It is a well-known thing that after a boat has gone one voyage it is rat-in-fested, and no matter what fumigations are carried out you don’t collar the whole lot. An infected rat may get on that boat, and by the agency of the rat flea a disease breaks out among the rats. If the disease does not cause a high mortality the infected animals and fleas may got ashore when the boat reaches Xew Zealand, and thus spread the plague among us.”