PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS.
♦ WATCH UPON SHIPPING. STRINGENT REGULATIONS. [by telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON. Saturday. In view of the approach of March— the danger month for bubonio plague— instructions have been given to medical health officers in all ports that all T 1 *" cautions regarding the berthing of ships must be most rigidly carried out ww supervised. The Minister expects fhat this will receive the personal attention Of \ the medical officers themselves, although an inspector is specially detailed in each port for this work. _ . The precautions incJude the fending off of ships at least four feet from the wharves, tarring four feet of each hawser night and morning, and provision for effective hawser discs. "I am inquiring," added tho Hon. u J. Parr, "into the complaint that at one port there has been neglect in not seeing hawsers were freshly coated with tar every dgy according to instruction*"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 6
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