PNEUMONIC PLAGUE
MILD OUTBREAK AT NOUMEA. . STAY OF CLIPPER CUT SHORT-.... (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 AUCKLAND, November 23. Because of a slight outbreak of pneumonic plague at Noumea the California Clipper stayed there only 1| hours today, and though not due here till tomorrow afternoon, arrived at 6.30 this evening.
The clipper left Suva at 5.23 a.m., New Zealand time, today .and arrived at Noumea at 10.15 a.m. She left Noumea for Auckland at midday. ’> As the Pan-American Airways base at Noumea is I j miles from town and all the employees have been isolated there since the outbreak of the epidemic it was considered safe for the passengers to alight at Auckland. The clipper remained at Noumea only long enough to refuel. Dr J. A. Watson, the port health officer in Auckland, said it -must be only a minor outbreak as the Department of Health in New Zealand had not been informed of it.-
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4
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155PNEUMONIC PLAGUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4
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