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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1988

QUARANTINE FOR VRS ON GREEN ISLAND

THE GOVERNMENT

HAS DECIDED TO SUSPEND ALL

MOVEMENTS OF

ISLAND A9 A PRECAUTIONARY

САЯВ INVOLVING

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE TO AND FROM GREEN MEASURE FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF A SUSPECTED PLAGUE A FOUR-YEAR-OLD VIETNAMESE GIRL.

ON

THE GIRL TODAY PEOPLE WILL BK 19 AVAILABLE

"ALTHOUGH TWO SERIES OF TESTS CARRIED OUT HAVE SHOWN NEGATIVE RESULTS, NO MORE VIETNAMESE BOAT TAKEN TO OR FROM GREEN ISLAND UNTIL THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS ON THURSDAY," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.

H

FERRY

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INSTEAD 'ALL NEW ARRIVALS WILL

BB

TEMPORARILY ON A

RENTED YAUMATEI

COMPANY VESSEL. FOLLOWING PORT HEALTH ROUTINE

THEY PROCEDURES, MEDICAL CLEARANCE AND OTHER TRANSFERRED TO OTHER CLOSED CAMPS.'

HOUSED

WILL

BE

AND ANTI-RODENT MEASURES HAVE

BEEN

THERE, INCLUDING

MEANWHILE, DISINSECTION INTENSIFIED ON GREEN ISLAND.

THOSE

CIVIL

AUXILIARY

THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT STAFF WORKING FROM THE

AID

MEDICAL SERVICES, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE WERE STILL FREE TO MOVE OUT OF GREEN ISLAND.

SERVICES,

IN AND

WHO "THESE STAFF HAVE HAD MINIMUM CONTACT WITH THE BOAT PROPLE

LAND ON GREEN ARE DISINSECTED AND MEDICALLY CHECKED AS SOON AS THEY ISLAND," HE SAID.

"CHANCES OF

THE

BEING STAFF

INFECTED BY

ANY DISEASE

ARE

EXTREMELY REMOTE, HE ADDED.

+

GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PRINCIPLE OF SHARES DISCLOSURE

COMMENTS RECEIVED BY THE GOVERNMENT DURING PUBLIC CONSULTATION BILL 1988 INDICATED ON THE SECURITIES (DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS)

AND CENTRED DISCLOSURE, GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF TECHNICALITIES IN THE PROVISIONS OF THE WHITE BILL.

PRESS AT A

CONFERENCE

ON

ACTING BACKGROUND AND OF WHICH WAS GAZETTED

HELD TODAY (MONDAY), THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, MR DAVID NENDICK, EXPLAINED MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE BILL, THE FINAL FORM LAST FRIDAY.

/"THE BILL, ....