SAMOAN GARRISON.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 2

SAMOAN GARRISON.

AN OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA

The Minister of Defence (Sir Jame~ Allen) stated that he had given instructions that the men of tbi Samoan garrison should be demobilised as soon as possible. But no definite date could be fixed. A sufficient garrison would require to be maintained at Samoa for some time to come, probably until the fate of the island had been determined at the Peace Conference.

An immediate difficulty, added the Minister, was that influenza had broken out in Samoa, and was spreading to a serious extent. The Samoan Administration had cabled asking fo: 1 medical assistance, and he was trying to arrange for aid to be sent from Sydney. New Zealand was not in a position to spare medical men at the present time.