It has been the more difficult for them to deal with it owing to the shortage of hospital accommodation available to the military, but this difficulty has now been overcome.
The sick men have been accommodated in a part of the general hospital known as the ''D. T's Ward'', and in the Plague Hospital, an isolated establishment which is not used ordinarily for even infectious diseases.
At this latter place there has been more or less of overcrowding, and the Defence authorities have arranged to have the use of other wards at the General Hospital.
The sick men will go there for treatment. When they are convalescent they will be moved to the Plague Hospital, and they will complete their period of rest at Trentham before going to work again.
Although conditions have not been as comfortable as might be, the patients do not complain, and there has not been a case of pneumonia supervening.
A considerable number of men contacts and convalescents are kept in isolated quarters provided for the purpose at the camp.
These epidemics are the bane of all long-established training camps.
This particular outbreak is believed to have originated with some men from Christchurch.
At Home the authorities do not know where to turn for hospital accommodation in the training centres.
There they have not only measles, but mumps among the soldiers.
• London: There was a curious sequel to the reported loss of the Montrosa (a Russian barque of 1003 tons), reported on the 2nd inst. to have been mined.
A fisherman named Sam Holdane, in the North Sea, observed a three-masted barque in full sail, and casually hailed her.
As he received no reply he scrambled aboard with a comrade and found her deserted.
He realised that he was in possession of an undamaged prize worth many thousands of pounds.
Holdane and his mate navigated the Montrosa to Bridlington and claimed her as a prize.
Apparently the Montrosa struck something in the night, and the crew in a panic rushed the boats without waiting too ascertain whether any damage was done.
• Messrs Walsh Brothers' locally built seaplane made several very successful flights yesterday (states a Press Association message from Auckland), travelling altogether about 60 miles, the longest flight being about 21 miles.
On three occasions Mr Walsh carried passengers, one who accompanied him on one of his longest flights being a New Zealand Herald reporter.
The machine, in full flight, travels at the rate of a mile a minute.
• The little country children on the Somme, who regularly frequent the camps and billets, are in no danger at all of starving.
They are great favourites with the Tommies, and are sure of a good fill at every meal from the surplus of the War Department's superabundant allowance.
• A peculiar mishap befell a farmer of Central Otago a few days ago.
A heifer he was milking managed to put his shoulder out of joint.
He suffered great pain during the day, but in the evening the same cow, by another sudden plunge, bumped the shoulder-blade back into place.
This unconscious act of generosity on the part of the animal did not end the matter.
As the result of the wrench and the strain, the farmer is now in Dunedin securing special treatment for his arm. - ODT, 7, 6, 1915.
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