MARAROA HELD UP.
FWAR OF INM.UEX2A
il'i-r I-ihss A^oi-.iatioii.)
CUlUS'lVm.'liOH, -last night
Tho ferry .sLcniiu-r Mavaroa was ii •.;} x\y at. Lyttelton to-night owing i.» i-hc ei'tvy.".? refusal to sill niili: ihv vessel liad been fumigaled for 24- .hours. Miii* .10---toon war. taken owing to twenty m.--n bays oi the crew having contracted sivk'iihss^ which, desp.te- medical opinion to ih<; ("oii.iniry, was auspectcd by the- man to 'be influenza hi' epidemic form. Dr. Upham, I'ort Health Olficer, after a thorough examination, declared xhe. L-ompiaint the men were suffering from was not infectious, but :.va.s mereiy a riev<-r<> cold. . 1 lie men's decision not to take the vessel to sea was not detinite'y an douneed until the South exrpess.- had hevii drawn alongside the Mararoa, and the passengers were about to embark. They therefore were' obliged' to return ..'«> Chr.Htchurch. The Mararoa. resume.*' her 'running - to-morrow night. The coastal steamer Manaroa takes the North Island mai.s to-night.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19190812.2.7
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 3
Word Count
154MARAROA HELD UP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.