FIRST IMMIGRANT SHIP.
PASSENGERS FOR NTEW PLYMOUTH. Vy T«lnfr»ph.-i'rc:3 Association. Wellington, July 19. The Shaw, Savill liner Mahana, the first immigrant ship since the war, berthed at 10 o'clook to-day after lying Sor two days in the stream with a number of cases of scarlet fever aboard.
She brings nearly 1000 immigrants, about 700 of whom were nomiuated (including a large number of girls coming out to be married), 120 coming under the overseas settlement scheme and the rest full-rate passengers. The fever cases are quarantined on Somes Island.
As a protest against allowing the Mahana to berth, the watersiders declined to handle the baggage and mails. The secretary of the Union states that though the Mahana has been declared a clean ship, another case of fever developed since. In view of the Niagara case in the epidemic, the union held that thj passengers should be quarantined until risk of infection had passed. In face of this decision, the immigrants have agreed with the department to unload the baggage themselves. Auckland passengers will tTavel by to-nfght's train; New Plymouth, Napier, and Gisborne passengers to-morrow morning, and passengers for the South to-night. The Mahana is due to sail /or Sydney j to-night.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1920, Page 3
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201FIRST IMMIGRANT SHIP. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1920, Page 3
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