STILL QUARANTINED

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 6

STILL QUARANTINED

AORANGPS PASSENGERS

THE VESSEL SAILS

.By Telegraph— Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Feb. 25

The qmaaiUiue station at Mor.uihi Island was visited to-day by 'Dr T. McKibbou, Dueetor of Public Hygiene, and Dr T. J. Hughes, Medical Officer of Health at Auckland. On his return to-night, Dr Hughes said: ‘•The patient who is suffering from smallpox is doing quite well, and there lias, been ho spread of infection. •There is nothing to report yet regarding the time that the Aorangi passengers will be required to stay at thequarantine . station. 1 ' We ’.Oil he guided by the results of the vaccina-", turns.. quid we do. not expect..to be able to decide the question of the period of' detention for a few clays yet.’

Still in quarantine, the Aorangi sailed for Sydney <at two o’clock this afternoon. Tn addition to her through passengers, all of whom had been vaccinated. the Aorangi took 78 passengers from Auckland. Originally there had been about 200 bookings from Auckland, but many of that number preferred to transfer to the Maunganui which will leave Auckland on Friday. The passengers, with • their luggage, were conveyed from the Central Wharf by a ferry boat to the Aorangi, which on arrival from Motuihi, had berthed at the Sheeriegs Wharf, Ocvonport. A naval guard and members of the police force weie on duty a* Sheerlegs Wharf to prevent access to the liner.

Before her departure, about filteen hundred hags of second ek'ss mail matter, brought by the Aorangi, wee" landed.