SOMES ISLAND.
—1..-—, .. REVERTS TO QUARANTINE STATION. " SOLDIERS WANT SAME PAY Ad CIVILIANS. By Tekgrapk —Press .association Wellington, Last Night. • Somes Island has now reverted to fc quarantine station, and military and public works men have been employed m clearing up tho placo after the Gerprisoners. It is understood thaw is accommodation (but no equipment or supplies as yet) for some -200 people to be quarantined. The difference in'pay between soldictra und civilians, which |is greatly to the advantage of the latter, for doing the same work of dealing I ftp, is said to have taus'ed some .heart" burning on the paTt of the sold Tern. Th»y feel there should be equal pay for jtatilll | work, i ■ , *
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 4
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117SOMES ISLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 4
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