INTERPROVINCIAL.
Tar Press Association,
CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 8.
A young.Maori leper, r-aid to be a resident of Pahiatua., was brought down by the Rotomahana this morning and taken to the leper station at Quail Island. It is understood that two other patients for Quail Island are to be brought down from the North Island shortly, but the utmost secrecy is being observed by' me health authorities. Fifteen Manehurian and .Siberian pomes which are to be taken to the Antarctic, with the South Role expedition, arrived this morning, and will be quarantinedo at Quail Island until the expedition starts.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13438, 9 November 1907, Page 3
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97INTERPROVINCIAL. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13438, 9 November 1907, Page 3
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