INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, April 17. Food shops and chemists are exempt from the order for the closing of shops for the week-end. The Cabinet is prepared to introduce special legislation to validate tho AJCmeeting outside the time provided by the Gaming Act, but will await the effect upon the influenza epidemic of the suspension of business during Easter before making a final decision. There h little likelihood, however, of a relaxation of the restrictions' to permit the meeting being held at an earlv date, if it can be held at all.—Aus.-N3. Cable Aam. Melbourne, April 17. Mr. Watt, in a message, says that the States are not co-operating with the Commonwealth in quarantine regulations and shippers arc threatening to divert tonnage to routes offering more continuous employment until the State Governments concerned are prepared to withdraw their quarantine regulations.
FIJI FREE FROM EPIDEMIC. Dunedin, April 17. Bejpwding influenza, the Union Company has been officially advised that the health authorities in Fiji have declared that colony to he clain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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170INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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