DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1918, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

TARI'KI. (iFroni Our Own Correspondent.) Tariki, Nov. 18. A meeting of Tariki residents was held on Saturday evening, ilr. A. E. -Laurence, chairman )f the Patriotic Committee, presiding. The uuain reason for the meeting was to consider the best means of dealing with the influenza epidemic. It was resolved that all present, with others, should do their utmost to lieip those in need of assistance. Notices were placed at the factories requesting those in need of help, medically or otherwise, to notify their requirements at tlie factories and help would be forthcoming.

In this connection the returned soldiers recently settled on the Croydon Road settlement have had anything hut good luck since coming to Taranaki. The winter was most severe, and they had no decent roads, and the loss in cattle through cold weather and the want of feed was very heavy. The War Relief Association rendered assistance in the shape of fodder, and now having got into their stride with the milking, down comes this epidemic. All the soldiers have been or are now patients, and these are doing what they can to help each other. On the Rutland Road, a wife has her husband and three children down, and, besides attending to the invalids, lias to milk 40 cows twica daily and take the milk to the factory. This is only one of many similar cases.

This "morning. Mr. Hamblyn, father of the family of boys who went to the front, and who lost four sons, was taken to the Stratford hospital in a delirious condition, caused by the epidemic and his great sorrow. Considerable trouble has been experi-. eneed in getting medicine- Doctors and nurses are out of the question, being required for cases in Stratford and Inglcwood, but there should be no trouble in getting medicine. This afternoon a supply of remedies is being sent from Stratford, and will be procurable from Mr. Reg. Hoskin, the stationmaster, who, with Mr. Laurence and others, hsus been very busv doing everything possible to assist tlie people here in tlieir great trouble.