Stop All Travel Or Re-Open Schools
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(( XEW PLVMOrTII, Feb. TS. Ineonsist ency in the existing infantile paralysis p'reeautions was alleged by Ifr. \V. J. Polson when the efl'cet ot the restrietions on education was dis eussed bv the Taranaki Education Board today. " We allow tens of thousands of ]>oople to rnngregate regularly at raee meetings," lie said, "yet if Ihe disease is sjirend bv eontaet, and according to some aulliorities it is, then tlie spread by tliese gathorings is eonsiderable. We sliould oitlier stoj) all travel or givc the children a ehatieo (o be edueated." In tlie Fruit h Island the ineidenre of tlie disease was fairly liglit, he added. One would tliink tlmt in areas wliere the poMtion was good, the education of Ihe cliildren could continue. ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 February 1948, Page 5
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