New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

ARRIVAL OF THE TAHITI. CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH. i :.' i I Per Press Association. : j Wellington 1 , September 12. Altogether • the! | returned troops ieem toihave dvad a very satisfactory ;voyage baek to the Dominion. Apart, from it wo days' tough weather just before Albany was reached, the steamer has travelled comfortably over smooth seas, and only two cases of illness occurred on the trip. Twelve days after, leaving Suez a measles patient was discovered, hut be was effectively ig&> I fated, and the tiny before arri»«i CiJ maii was attacked by pneumonia.-: Such a clean hill of health is infinitely'; to the credit of Captain TCv.ms. the' popular master of the Tahiti, who ap : ' pears to have personally, the rigid enforcement.of sanitary pre|", cautions. This, task "was not an easy <j one, for a large number of. military. 1 ' orderlies vhad to be drilled with effiv: ( ejeney.. The fact that this orderly , work had to J be. undertaken by healthy rpe.n,v,wmo did not get' as far as the'; front, and who have been returned on I account of various technical disabilities, led to some grumbling on their part, but close investigation shows that while Captain Evans, acting iii conjunction with the military and medical officers, maintained an ad-/ mirable system of discipline and cleanliness there is no reason to believe that anyone throughout the voyage suffered ill treatment or injustice. Some absurd stories were set afloat by idle tongues on Saturday concerning' the sternness of discipline inculcated by the captain, but' there appears to be not the slightest foundation in them. STRATFORD BRITISH AND BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

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