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r f Thin Day. I* ' |,< mi,it i;>i imiiolin states no cbbob I (Kcuvjiii in Auckland city or Jr vl>; •. One ca«e is reported at rcor in a previously inflicted house. I Five cases uro reported at Ahipara, J thirteen miles from Kaitaiß. THE MAUNGATAUTARI OUTBREAK. Cambridge, Thifl Day. The Health Department announces that the small pox outbreak in the Maiingatautari district, where the epidemic experienced a severe form, has now quite abated. There have been no fresh cases for some weeks and all the sufferers are convalescent. A pass has been given to one native of each pah to come to town and purchase food Buppließ. The whares have been thoroughly disinfected, and where considered too insanitary for habitation, destroyed by lire. During the currency of the epidemic not one European was'affected. HEALTH DEPARTMENT CRITICISED. MAYOR OF HAMILTON'S VIEWS. Hamilton, Thiß Day. The Waikato Times publishes an interview with the Mayor of Hamilton as a reply to the Health Department regarding the position of the Maori pahs in the Waikato. Mr Manning states all he said was true in every detail. What the natives really regarded as a joke was that an official visit should be made a fortnight after their wants were attended to and after they had been allowed to suffer for some months. The department, he says, has ahown an entire lack of business aptitude, and effectually shown itself incapable of office. The shifting of responsibility on to the Hospital Board was only an excuse for an easy way of shirking duty. Had a sub-inspector been placed in each infected camp the natives could have been restricted to the pahs and there would then have been none of the present waste, extravagance and uneasiness, while the absurd proclamation issued by the thousand throughout the country would have been unnecessary. It wbb, no doubt, very gratifying to the Minister and Departmental officers to regard the whole thing as a joke, but the local bodies on whom all the trouble had shouldered failed to see any humour in the situation. Had it not been for the assistance rendered by local bodies it would have been a case of God help the country and Heaven spare the Government. It was a disgrace and menace to the country that the department should have tinkered with the matter as it had, instead of adopteding a strong and definite policy. Officers of the department had rightly burned the clotbeß considered infected, but had neglected to supply the natives with anything in substitution. The result was that at late as last week there was an appeal for clothing which had to be supplied by charity. In conclusion the Mayor would like the department to state who was in charge of the Morrinsville isolation camp, and why it was broken up.