NO SCHOOL TILL EASTER.

Shannon News, 24 March 1925, Page 3

NO SCHOOL TILL EASTER.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S PRECAUTIONS. WELLINGTON, Last Night. ! Sir Maui Pomare, Minister of 'Health, informed a "Times" rep->-sentative that Cabinet has decided that schools are not to be re-opencd nor other restrictions lifted, until after the usual Easter vacation. As Kaster Monday falls on April 13th this year, this means that schools will not re-open till April 14 th at the earliest. The matter will be re-considered by Cabinet a week before the date mentioned with a view to deciding whether or no the J re-opening; of schools shall be still further postponed. "What we have to do," stated Dr. McKibbin (Director of Public Hygeine) is to ascertain what these late cases are like as regards severity. We are taking steps to do that as a guide to the Department in regard to the maintenance or otherwise of the restrictions. "There would be only one ground on which we could reasonably lift the restriction, and that would be that cases reported during March and especially towards the end of the month, were mild.". CASES AMONG ADUI/F WOMEN. TWO FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. A significant feature of the infantile paralysis notifications during the past week has been the number of cases among adult women. Up to the present, the majority of adults who have been notified as having contracted the disease have proved negative cases, but the few that have turned out to be positive cases have been mostly of a serious nature. Twio further adult cases are included in to-day's notifications.