SLIGHT OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE AT NOUMEA
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 23. Because of a slight outbreak of pneumonic plague at Noumea, the California Clipper stayed there only one hour and a-half today and although not due here until tomorrow afternoon, arrived at 6.30 o’clock this evening. The Clipper left Suva at 5.23 a.m. New Zealand time today and arrived at Noumea at 10.15 a.m. She left Noumea for Auckland at midday. As the Pan American Airways base at Noumea is one mile and a-half from the town and all employees have been isolated there since the outbreak of the epidemic it was considered safe for passengers to alight at Auckland. The clipper remained at Noumea only long enough to refuel. Dr J. A. Watson, port health officer at Auckland, said it must be only a minor outbreak, as the Health Department in New Zealand had not been informed of it.
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Southland Times, Issue 24600, 24 November 1941, Page 4
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