Measles—Quarantine
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 14.
WHEN the “Maetsuycker” arrived from Sydney on September 29, she report ed an outbreak of measles aboard.
All communication with the shore was forbidden, and the nine passengers whom she landed were placed in quarantine, on an isolated allotment, three miles from Port Moresby.
Mr. O. C. Ludolph, Fiji Government Architect, returned to Suva in mid-Sep tember from leave spent in England.
Mr. T. N. Tudberry, overseer of Arigua plantation, Kieta, New Guinea, is at pre sent spending holidays in Queensland.
Rt. Rev. Henry Newton, D.D., who re tired two years ago after having served for 14 years in Papua as Bishop of New Guinea, has returned to the Territory ana is still carrying on mission work. He has lately undertaken to fill the place of the Rev. C. Whonsbon-Aston, who has had charge of the work of the Australian Board of Missions at Mukawa, but who is now in Australia on a year’s sick leave, during which he will do curacy work at All Saints, St. Hilda, Victoria. Bishop Newton has been in the Anglican ministry for 47 years, and he is regarded in Papua as one of the greatest friends the natives ever have had.