TASMANIA APPLIES FOR EXEMPTION.
WELLINGTON, April 20.
The Government Sanitary Commissioners at Auckland will be requested to examine some dead rats found at Howick to ascertain Avhether there are any traces of plague.
The Government of Tasmania have Avired to the Colonial Secretary asking for the removal of - quarantine restrictions aeaiast
Tasminian ports. No decision has yet been airiA'ed at.
The Government are drafting a form of bond Avhich passengers from infected pores avill be asked to sign declaring their Avillingne?s to report themselves periodicaliy for five days at "the expiration of quarantine. Those refusing wilL be kept in quarantine for five days.
No cargo from infected ports is to be discharged on the AA-harves until fumigated in lighters.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2408, 26 April 1900, Page 20
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119TASMANIA APPLIES FOR EXEMPTION. Otago Witness, Issue 2408, 26 April 1900, Page 20
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