THE MILITARY CAMPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17484, 28 November 1918, Page 2

THE MILITARY CAMPS.

A GRATIFYING REPORT.

(Peu United Puess Association.) WELLINGTON, November 27. Hie serious cases at the camps have dwindled to S3, and very few now cases parade. Tlio total number in hospital at iroritham is now down to 240.

THE TARANAKI DISTRICT,

DISEASE SEVERE IN THE COUNTRY.

(Pbb United Peebs Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, November 27. Tho epidemic is well in hand as the result of the energotio and efficient "work of tho Citizens' Health Committee, but tho position in tho country districts, especially amongst the Maoris, -is not so satisfactory. T' lo New Plymouth committee is now throwing in its whole weight and organisation into helping the country districts from Opunako to Mokau and south to Tanki to combat tho disease, which in places is virulent. Every settler's home and Maori whare is bcinjr inspected by specially trained men, and hospitals are being established in every country centre. The Town Committee is providing women and men helpers, medicine, etc., whilst the worst cases are boing brought into tho NewPlymouth Hospital.

CLOSING OF BUSINESS PREMISES.

QUESTION OF RELIEF.

iFeom Otjb Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, November 26. A plea for some compensation to those people -who had had to closo their premises by order of the Health Depuartment in tho recent epidemic -was made by Mr A. Harris in the House of Representatives today. Mr Harris said that somo of those people had suffered, severely, and he suggestqd_ that something might bo done by providing that the landlord should be made to bear a portion of tho rent. Mr Russell said that at a timo Hire tho present, _ when the safety of the whole community was monaccd, it was impossible tor the Government to consider private interests. He presumed that the question had reference to such peoplo as hairdressers. Their places of business had been closed largely for their own protection. People would have gone into them spreading infection, and the staffs and other members of tho public would have contracted tho disease. One could not help feeling sorry for those who had suffered financial loss, but he could nojt promise to give any consideration to the cases of people whose places of business had been compulsorily closed. OBITUARY. Private Thomas Fitzpa trick, who died at Prentliam from influenza, was tne second son of Mr Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Cutten street, South Dunodin. lie was born at St. Kilda, and finished his education at tho Musselburgh School. After leaving school he started work in the Otago Daily jl'iin.es office jobbing department, where' he remained for two years. He then left to enter the Hillside Workshops, and was there until he joined the colours. He w.-s engaged in ambulance work at Quarantine Island, and had only returned to lientham 11 days when he. succumbed to the prevailing epidemic. He leaves a wife and son Ho had one sister and two brothers (Davo and Jack) in France. Mr A W. Young, who died in Wellington on Tuesday, was for several ye us manager of the Commercial Union Assu.ance Company in Dunedin. He afterwa-'cis joined the Atlas Assurance Company. living in Dunedin he was a very keen lawn tennis player, being a member of th* Roslyn Club. He jvas formerly a member of the Otago Association's Executive, and for several years, up to the time of his death, was the_ Otago Association's delegate on the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association.

Advice was received at Oamaru on Monday of trie death at Dannevirke of Mr T. A. Familton, of Oamaru. The deceased was born_ and educated in Oamaru, and was married to the eldest daughter of Mr .Tames Mitchell. Owing to the state of his health he was ordered to the North Island, and was located at Dannevirke, where he fell a victim, to the prevailing epidcmic. He leaves a wife and four children. Mr Familton was for nearly 20 years a member of the Tenth Regimental Band. He was also a member of the Loyal Oamaru Lodge of Oddfellows, and in bygone years was a conspicuous footballer

A Press Association message from Wellington states that Mr F. V. Waters, First Assistant Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, died last evening from lnfiucnza complications. Sister Taylor; of tho New Plymouth Hospital, a daughter of Mrs H. J. Taylor, of Fitzroy, has succumbed to an attack' of influenza, contracted in the course of her duties in nursing others. Another nurse who has lost her life through the epidcmic is Sister Violet .Eleanor Logie, second daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Logie, of Kohimarama, Auckland. The Marine Department has received news of the death of Mr Pyke, inspector of machinery at Palmerston North, who died from influers.a.

Mr Thomas Ralph King, who died ut Wyndham on Monday, after an attack of influenza, was tho second son of Mr Charles King (Mayor of Milton). He was a plumber by trade, and had recently taken over a business at Wyndham. Ho was 33 years of age, and leaves a widow and four children. The deceased was a keen footballer in his younger days, and was well known throughout Otago as a prominent member of tno Toko Club and as a referee in the principal Southern Otago matches. Mr Blake Mason, one of New Zealand's strongest chess players, died from influenza at Hastings on Wednesday week; aged 35 years On leaving Christ's College, Christchurch, at the age of 16, ho learned the rudiments of tho game from his brother John (who was tho New Zealand chess champion in 1910), and joined the Canterbury Chess Club. Eighteen months later he removed to Timaru. Soon after his arrival he played his first _ telegraphic match, and scored a win against the Oamaru representative opposed to him at board 14. His promotion was phenomenally rapid, for only six months later he figured at board 3 in tho match against Otago, drawing his game against Mr Warsaw, a DimecGn Congress player. In 1803 and 1904 he was champion of the Timaru Club, which he represented with distinction in the telegraphic matches against the Canterbury, Otago, and Oamaru Clubs. In the 1904-5 congress (held at Oamaru) he made his first bid for the New Zealand championship. He was the youngest competitor (aged 21), and his 13 opponents included eight whoso names apper.r on the New Zealand championship roll; nevertheless he took second prize, coming out of what was an exceptionally stiff ordeal for a debutant, only half a point behind the champion (A. W. O. Davies). This is generally considered to be the host "first appearance" ever made by any Now Zealand colt. In the big Oliristchurch Exhibition Congress (1906-7) he was again in the "Sieger" class. He "cracked up" under the strain of playing continuously for nearly three weeks in exceptionally hot weather; and,; though his percentage of wins was not so high as at Oamaru, he gained distinction being the only New Zealandor to get as much as a draw against Mr Viner, tho Australian champion. His third and last bid for tho New Zealand championship was mado at the congress held in Wellington at Easter, 1803. Although handicapped by a sovero cold, ho annexed fourth prize. Mr Mason enlisted in 1915, and left New Zealand in the 7th Reinforcements. He was severely wounded on the western front (at Flors), and returned to the dominion when able to travel.

THE CONDITIONS AT ST. BATETANS. TO_ THR EDITOH. Sib,—Please permit me to add another fact to the series of facts you kindly published for mo in Saturday's issue of your paper. Tho local doctor has sufficiently roc<nnered to resume his work, independent of the assistance hitherto so kindly rendered by his neighbouring colleagues. "Anxious" will no doubt bo glad 'to know that tho snaaEest possibility of residents of St. Bathana having to dopond upon patent medicines has been finally banished.—l am, ot °'> „ „ Facts. St. Bathans, November 26,