RECENT EPIDEMIC.
MAORI RESTRICTIONS. REMOVED FROM TO-DAY. APPRECIATION OF MINISTER. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Tuesday. The announcement was made to-day by the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister for Public Health, that from tomorrow all restrictions affecting the travelling of Maoris will be removed. He pointed out that three months had elapsed since the last case of tho epidemic was notified, and that the Department of Public Health had at present three medical officers travelling and vaccinating natives in outlying districts. Precautionary measures would, however, still be exercised by theso officers, and also by district and the port health officers for some little time. The Minister cordially expressed his appreciation of the wholehearted way in which thfi Maoris in general had accepted vaccination and other precautionary measures of them. They had, lie said, borne with the inconveniences necessary upon tho restriction of their travelling in a manner which redounded to their credit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 10
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