QUARANTINED

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 3203, 25 February 1930, Page 5

QUARANTINED

AORANGI'S PASSENGERS.

CASE OF SMALL-POX.

AUCKLAND, Yesterday

A case of small pox was reported on the arrival of the liner Aorangi from Vancouver last evening, and the Health Department withheld 'permission for the vessel to berth. She was anchored in the stream for the night, and at 8 o'clock this morning proceeded to the quarantine station at Motuihi.

The instructions of the Health Department last night were that the passengers for New Zealand must remain on the island until the possibility of feetion has disappeared—ra period possibly of three weeks. Through passengers for Sydney, after being vaccinated, will be permitted to rejoin the ship this evening, when the Union Company hopes to despatch her for Sydney. un» der quarantine. In the circumstances it will be left for the Australian health authorities to decide whether these passengers may land at Sydney. The patient concerned is a young woman who is travelling second-class from Vancouver to Sydney. The district health officer, Dr T. J. Hughes, who visited the ship soon after his arrival, described it as a mild case.

No cargo for Auckland will be landed from the Aorangi. The English and American letter mail was brought ashore last evening. It was stated by the Union Company 's official that it was Jiot intended to discharge the New Zealand cargo on the Aorangi. Instead, it would be taken to Sydney and there transhipped to the Dominion. Unloading while the liner is at Motuihi would involve transhipment into lighters, and without the usual port facilities the operation would take too long. . v

The prohibition against landing has come as an unpalatable surprise to the passengers, among whom are the noted golfers, Walter Hagen and J". H. Kirkwood, who were to play a match at Titirangi to-morrow, .and the Canadian members of the Empire farmers who are to tour the Dominion.

EARLY RELEASE OE PASSENGERS' MUST BE. VACCINATED.. According to a statement made by the Director-General of Health, Dr T. H. Valentine,' it now appears that the passengers will not be isolated for three weeks. Dr Valentine stated that the passengers in quarantine would' bedischarged after vaccination,, in accordance with modern practice'.. The Aorangi will embark passengers from Auckland in the stream thismorning and will leave for Sydney early this afternoon.

Advice received this morning states that the original passengers on' the Aorangi are comfortably quartered' at Motuihi.

A message from Sydney states that on Friday, when the Aorangi arrives, the vessel will be ordered into quarantine for 24 hours.