INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1918, Page 5

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

IMPROVEMENT AT AUCKLAND.' ,j By Telegraph.—-Press Association. ' ' r J Auckland. Last Night. „!i' There is a more hopeful note in to?,,' day's reports of the organisations o<A>y£ earned in fighting the epidemic / Many ;i patients are At, {be MBn|!s time helpers are etill urgently cattail ~'• upon, and it is emphasised that effort* ':* must not he slackened. t ./y A serious phase of the trouble fa' fact of many of the dead lying unbnri«4, "j for days at times.. Br. Frengley is taty*, >, ing a notification that burials must tv'-l < carried out without delay, and it is «W f , pected that measures trill Jbs uSagbfAJ to ensure this. ' *S

' DUNEDIN NUSSES DOWK." ' Dunedin, Last IftgftC. $5 Thirty-'tteee members of the staff t^f Dunedin hospital are down wi#i faritoV^ enza. There were 43 jnfhKTOft sK&eng' Jj at a,3t*Tun. • *-V s - i —■ — » 'f: IN GBKSTGHUBCH. "/| Christchnrch. Last Fjgfct. ''jj* Energetic- steps to cope with t&ttf inft&Mf enza epidemic in the Quodn pital for convalescent soldiers at mer were taken immediately lie appeared there. Two soldiers, •have, died there, G. Goodrich and Lance-Corporal W.<fcif Clark. A, discharged soldier. Mason, a Maori, wwe mex!t<of-kiii lir&*| at Blaketown, war Greymoutia, 4fe4«i Ohristchurch hospital in the from influenza. " \} Br. Chessons fas issued an "order WX'M ing theatres, public Wis, and ibillittjfejg roome. ' ' "'J'^flsKv" Up to the present thirty cases-«f fluenza have been admitted to the pital for treatment. u { The shortage of staffs -through «D2a is interfering -with tftve teleglfcEJi .A service more than any trouble -with Jfcfl waxes. Tor the same reason a -redttcw, fy tramway service is ieing ibrouglt, Jjjtaytf operation. , „-ajj!fJv,* ,'S. It is proposed to increase the amou£v'J| payable by way of old-age penswn,,, \ which, under the finance Act, already 15s a week, and is higher twlttl* the old-age pension payable in any, «Wr|f? part of the world, stated the Prime Mg»f>,: ister yesterday, in reply to a qutfi^Qtt; 'i by Mr J. Vigor Brown INapier). >\*K* When the British forces into the more thickly populated parts&fs.vjj Palestine—Jerusalem, Jaffa, etc, —&«&_**■ was absolutely no gold in circulation, any coinage. Silver was toe specie, and so highly "waa it prized ttflfc t *j a Turkish !£1 ! note (and oven-a.. British ~t note of the same denomination) worth only about Bs. With thequibkened jiropensity of, .the native people to*, hoard up that whic'hi was of iiho greatest - j value at the moment, silver itself became exceedingly ecarce. To get over the difficulty the British Government. - sanctioned the Egyptian banks to iwne ,' a five-piastre note (worth Is), and sack,. _ was the effect of that move that*to ] A natives emptied their hoards of eilw.-j £ coin on to the market, until there wae-ft- >.'; positive glut, and it was not an mucosa-* -. mon thing for natives to accost soldiers and ask them if they wanted change for their notes the reason being'that «» ' v banks in Palestine recognised the British piastre note, but not, the Turkish silver money.

Garden Hose that last? for yews-:' for NORTH BRTTISH RUBBER CGM- ". PANTS GARDEN HOS.E. All nacdtfttre f that does not burst, crack o: kbSk.. 4*&»s shops sell it. . ■<,,,.'■ ''-'tvW