CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896 — Page 233

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call for volunteers was originally made the disease

which had broken out and which was fast spreading was

to all appearances very fatal and contagious, yet Major

General Barker seeing the need of the Colony, and the

danger which threatened it, at once assumed the responsi-

bility of permitting the military to volunteer for house

to house visitation and other offices, and for the

removal of the sick and dead, with all the attendant

dangers.

A further and more urgent call for volunteers

was made later on, and this was also sanctioned by

Major General Barker until about 400 men of all ranks

were employed.

There is no doubt that the military volunteers

rendered very great service to the Colony, and that it

was largely due to their untiring efforts and to the good

work performed by them that the plague was checked and

eventually trampled out.

The general assisted the Colony in other ways,

and the Committee fully acknowledging the value of his aid, unanimously decided that the thanks of the community

should be tendered to him, and that your Excellency

should be approached with a view to the services rendered

by him in connection with the plague being brought to the special notice of Her Majesty's Government for

further recognition.

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228 call for volunteers was originally made the disease which had broken out and which was fast spreading was to all appearances very fatal and contagious, yet Major General Barker seeing the need of the Colony, and the danger which threatened it, at once assumed the responsi- bility of permitting the military to volunteer for house to house visitation and other offices, and for the removal of the sick and dead, with all the attendant dangers. A further and more urgent call for volunteers was made later on, and this was also sanctioned by Major General Barker until about 400 men of all ranks were employed. There is no doubt that the military volunteers rendered very great service to the Colony, and that it was largely due to their untiring efforts and to the good work performed by them that the plague was checked and eventually trampled out. The general assisted the Colony in other ways, and the Committee fully acknowledging the value of his aid, unanimously decided that the thanks of the community should be tendered to him, and that your Excellency should be approached with a view to the services rendered by him in connection with the plague being brought to the special notice of Her Majesty's Government for further recognition.

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228 call for volunteers was originally made the disease which had broken out and which was fast spreading was to all appearances very fatal and contagious, yet Major General Barker seeing the need of the Colony, and the danger which threatened it, at once assumed the responsi- bility of permitting the military to volunteer for house to house visitation and other offices, and for the removal of the sick and dead, with all the attendant dangers. A further and more urgent call for volunteers was made later on, and this was also sanctioned by Major General Barker until about 400 men of all ranks were employed. There is no doubt that the military volunteers rendered very great service to the Colony, and that it was largely due to their untiring erforts and to the good work performed by them that the plague was checked and eventually trampled out. The general assisted the Colony in other ways, and the Committee fully acknowledging the value of his aid, unanimously decided that the thanks of the community should be tendered to him, and that your Excellency should be approached with a view to the services rendered by him in connection with the plague being brought to the special notice of Her Majesty's Government for further recognition.

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