NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Tclcsrftph—Prc£S Association.) * EPIDEMIC RULES. Auckland, September 29. _ Three cases at the Police Court this morning had to do with tho epidemic cases at-Orakei and tho precautions taken bv the Health Department to prevent its spreading. m ■ A Native named lame Tauna was charged that, 011 August 27, being tho occupier of house in tlio Onutci health district, in which Takatai loliana was found sick of an infectious disease, ho had neglected to notify the authorities. Mr. JiVazer, S.M., said that undoubtedly other Maoris had,been cleverover the matter, but, according to tlio evidenoe, defendant had given some sort of notico 011 tlio day after he was leit in charge of .the house, and His Worship could not do more than convict him and order liini to pay the costs. James M. Galviiij a Tosident of Orakei, admitted that 011 September i lie entered the Orakei Native pa when it was infected with smallpox. in* spector M'Grath said that Galvm met close to the pa, and well knew that it was isolated, but lie deliberately rocle through tho pa after having been warned. Galvin was lined £2 and 19s. C °Edward Simpkins, who happened to bo residing within tho precincts ot the Orakei Settlement when the quarantine proclamation descended on it, committed the indiscretion on September S of taking a walk to tho wharf, Tihicli was oiMdo tho iwfeted area. On his way back ho mot tho constable who was on guard, and, in view of the fact that, only half an hour previously, Sinipkina had been warned not to go to tlio wharf, the man was prosecuted forlertv. ing quarantine. Ho was fined £2 ana 7s. costs.