AORANGI PASSENGERS

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17953, 24 February 1930, Page 5

AORANGI PASSENGERS

SENT TO QUARANTINE.

CASE OF MILD SMALLPOX

THREE WEEKS ON AIOTUIHI,

AUCKLAND, Monday

A case of smallpox was reported on the arrival of the liner 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 S o’clock this morning proceeded to the quarantine station at Afotuihi to land her passengers while she is fumigated. The instructions of the Health Department last night were that the passengers for New Zealand must remain on the island until the possibility of infection has disappeared —a period possibly of 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 under quarantine. In the circumstances it will be left for the Australian health authorities iO 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 her 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.

Golfers and Farmers on Board. It was stated by the Union Company's officials that it was not intended to discharge the New Zealand cargo on the Aorangi. Instead, it would be taken to Sydney and tnore transhipped to the Dominion. Unloading while the liner is at Alotuihi would involve transhipment into lighters, and without the usual port facilities the operation would take too long. The prohibition against landing has come as an unpalatable surprise lo tlip passengers, among whom are the noted golfers, Walter Hagen and J. U. Kirkwood, who were to olay a match at Titirangi to-morrow, and the Canadian members of ihe Empire farmois who are to tour the Dominion.

AORANGI’S MOVEMENT.

SAIL FOR SYDNEY ON THURSDAY

PASSENGERS TO BE VACCINATED

(Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Monday

The Aorangi will return from Alotuihi this afternoon, and will leave for Sydney at noon on Thursday. Passengers from New Zealand for Sydney are advised by the Union Company to travel by the Aorangi after having been vaccinated. As an alternative they may go by the Maunganui, but the latter is fairly fully booked.

KIRKWOOD AND HAGEN.

GOING ON TO AUSTRALIA,

TOUR OF N.Z. ABANDONED

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday.

Kirkwood and Hagen stay aboard the Aorangi, going on to Sydney tonight. The New Zealand matches have been abandoned.

CASE ON THE NALDERA

PATIENT SUCCUMBS

United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright, PERTH, Feb. 23.

The death occurred to-day of Mr James M. Sharpe, of Melbourne, who was found to be suffering from smallpox on the arrival of Hie P. and U. liner Naldera at Fremantle.