A WONDERFUL TIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 9

A WONDERFUL TIME.

IN QUARANTINE AT SYDNEY.' CHICAGO TOURISTS’ EXPERIENCE. Ail interesting commentary on the hardships reported by cable from Sydney at the time to have been suffered by passengers of the Niagara, when quarantined in that port, owing to the outbreak of smallpox on the ship, is afforded by a letter written to a lady visitor to Palmerston North by Mrs Ayres Boal, of Chicago, who with her husband was a passenger on the Niagara. '' “You’ve probably read of all the so-called terrible indignities we suffered at the quarantine island,” says the letter. “No one would have complained hardly, if only we could havo had dinner and spent that night on tho ship. Arriving dinnerless and late and in the dark at the quarantine station was pretty bad, especially for elderly people and mothers with small children. Oh, well, it’s almost over now and really we have had a wonderful time —gorgeous weather and .beautiful location with plenty of tennis and walks- and swimming. We have been very contented. Our room is in a quiet corner, overlooking the harbour. ■ We have made friends with several people whom we hardly knew on the ship, and it is remarkable what a quarantine will do in that respect.” Mrs Boal -stated that she was leaving Adelaide on March 20 and would be travelling via Colombo, where, she understood, there was a bad epidemic of smallpox. ~ “Perhaps,” she humorously remarked, “we shall have the pleasure of visiting . their quarantine station, too.”