VISIT TO TRENTHAM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8273, 19 October 1915, Page 6

VISIT TO TRENTHAM.

WELLINGTON, October 18. Tho Prime Minister visited Trentham yesterday. He was greatly impressed with the improvements that had been made at the camp. He said that since he visited tho camp, about a month ago, the now hospital building, with accommodation for 150 beds, had been completed. Tho building was after a new plan, similar to tho tea kiosk at Trentham Racecourse. A number of patients had been removed from the racecourse- buildings to the other hospital, which was completed last wintor. A coating of gravel, in some places 18in. deep, had been placed on all tho streoln and footpaths, and the water channels ali had been concreted. A hundred shower bathe, with hot and cold water, had been installed, also an up-to-date drying house for drying the men's clothes. The discharge of goods by tho railway was greatly facilitated by the very commodious goods shed, and suitable storehouses had been built for moat and milk.

"There are not many sc^diers there at present, something less than a thousand, 2000 "of those formerly in Trentham having gone out to the new camp at Mungaroa," said Mr Massey. "A ray large number of new men are coming into camp during the present week. The officers express themselves as perfectly satisfied with the men who are arriving, and they say, also, that every possible preparation is being made to meet all eventual tes, even if the war lasts another two years"