Briefly

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1940, Page 9

Briefly

Newspaper. —The “Daily News,” formerly the “Labour Daily,” has been purchased by Consolidated Press, Ltd., publishers of the “Daily Telegraph,” Sydney. An announcement regarding the future of the paper will be made soon. Interned. —Two more aliens arrested at Port A’nuriri were taken to Wellington yesterday morning. They were Italians, father and son, and were accompanied by a military and police guard. This makes .a total of six aliens from Hawke’s Bay recently interned. Influenza. —The improvement in the position of the influenza epidemic among soldiers from Papakura Camp has been so rapid that a hundred of the beds at the Auckland Teachers’ Training College are being removed immediately. The total number of cases has dropped to 268, and as ,a result it is proposed to begin with the closing of the emergency hospital at the training college, and move any patients to the Ellei’slie racecourse. Ferry.—The Union Steamship Company’s inter-island ferry steamers are continuing to make daylight trips from Wellington and Lyttelton. The ships will leave both Wellington and Lyttelton at 8.15 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Further sailings are indefinite. Carg’en.—Offered for war purposes by Sir Ernest Davis and the Hon. Eliot Davis, M.L.C., Hotel Cargen is to be used by the Auckland Hospital Board as a nurses’ home or for any other purpose which the circumstances may demand. In accepting the offer at a meeting last night, the board was informed that the buildings would be handed over during July.