WANTED KNOWN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3909, 9 July 1881, Page 3

WANTED KNOWN.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)

Sib,—Will you kindly inform me and the public generally whose duty it is to supply families isolated through scarlet fever or some other infectious disease with the necessaries of life? It cannot be the duty of the nurse, for she is equally as isolated as the family. Is it the duty of the Relieving Officer, Mr Mason? If so, he certainly lias not attended to his duty properly in all cases, for I am informed that it in one case on the Thames, where the family are isolated through scarlet fever being in the bouse, he has not visited the place for at least two or three days, and the unfortunate iimateu would have been left to starve had not the neighbours supplied them with provisions. r . Hoping this will have the effect of settling whose duty it is to attend to such cases. —I am &c,

Engineer.

[The Local Board of Health is responsible for the supply of food, medicine, and allowance. After determining to isolate a family, no person but the officer of the Board or the medical man can lawfully enter or visit the residence of the family isolated.—E». Star]

\^ (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) jJ*^'ySiH,— l see that ungrateful Auckland is as usual trying to throw a slur on the Thames people, this time in regard to the Tisit of the Royal Princes. All kinds of suggestions have been made for their entertainment and to favourably impress them with our beautiful Province, but in none has the Thames ever been thought of or mentioned, or even one of our leading men appointed on the reception committee, although ▼arious Waikato settlers and others from unimportant districts figure on the reception list. Now, sir, I venture to affirm that as sailors, with an eye to the picturesque and beautiful, our Royal visitors would more admire and appreciate a trip through the Hauraki Gulf, thence by steamer to Te Aroha, coach and rail across country to Alexandra; then again by steamer down the Waipa and Waikato to Mercer, and on to Auckland by rail. I can guarantee the route specified would be a most enjoyable one and u that the various centres of population would give England's future king and his brother a right royal reception.—l am, &c, Lotalty.