HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SHIPPING COMPANIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 64, 7 March 1902, Page 2

HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SHIPPING COMPANIES

PRR PJWBB AaSCOIArioH. Wellington, March 5. With rogir i to tli» innpec ion of passengers subsequent; i 0 theii landing A from ships liible to qutrant'n#, Health Depirtment states that agents for thn Onion, Huddart-P titer, aud Tyaer linos, and the locvl sgeata for the troopships Devon and Kent have asHoiite.i to an agreemw. which fh yoo u.ider r fair on*. P singers are to b<i al'owed to land after ordinary medical inspection, it being compulsory upon the .i to report to th» i»«di*k) offioors ' !>g required by the Health authorkit'H ; shipping companies to pay a maximum fee of XIOO for k'pp)rts vf thesa medic <1 office, and should tbe exp-nse h> less than this amount tb» difference snail be refunded to the 'shipping con>pani«s ; shipping companies to ha entirely freed of rcHjyiigihiKtr in connection with reporting of passenjiers af'er landing; m consideration of the p tyment of this .£100; weirs of vessels to bj examined by health officers at Auckland, Qigmine, Napier. Wellington, Lyfieltw, Port Chalm»r«, Dnnedin and Kluff free of tbarge to shipping companies. The Departnmt M has about 2000 doses of Haffkin*'* prophy lactic in hand. ! v ■— lJlL^s*2^aens