Smallpox Scare In Tahiti
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Sept. 1.
I HAVE not sent you anything about the smallpox scare because everyone here would like the whole thing for gotten. It was a pardonable case of wrong diagnosis.
But quarantine was amply justified.
Smallpox is difficult to diagnose in the early stages and even the best physicians can err. In such a thing as smallpox, it is better to err on the side of over caution.
The 34 ft. yawl “Marie” (Captain Prank Dona) returned to New Zealand in mid-September after a three months cruise among the islands of Fiji, Tonga and the Kermadecs.
Mr. Ronald Ogllvie Cock, a member of the engineering staff of Guinea Airways, Ltd., recently married Miss Edna Latham, at Port Moresby, Papua. Rev. O. G.
Parry, of the London Missionary Society, performed the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Cassey, who recently arrived in Apia from New Zealand, has joined the staff of the Postal and Radio Depart ment of the Samoan Administration^ Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Campbell returned to Wau, New Guinea, at the end of Sep tember after an extensive tour in the East. He is a member of the staff of New Guinea Goldfields. Ltd.
Mr. Arthur W. Williams, manager of the N.Z. Reparation Estates plantation at Vailele, Western Samoa, recently mar ried Miss Felicity Thynne, of the nurs ing staff at Apia Government Hospital.