HEALTH CAMP COST.
TOTAL EXPENDITURE £99. AVERAGE OF 21/2 A WEEK. The fact that the Ashburton Health Camp, conducted for four weeks each January, this year cost £99 9s-10d, an average of £1 Is 2d a week for each child, was reported to the meeting of the committee yesterday afternoon. The expenditure last year, was £lO2 10s 2d. The child weeks at Ashburton totalled 100. Figures for the Otaki, Gisborne and Wanganui camps were presented at the meeting. In the ease of Otaki the cost was 24b 7d fpr each child for a week, at Wanganui 10s 2d and at Gisborne 23s 8.6 d. At Gisborne the child weeks totalled 408. The Otaki camp, it was pointed out, is a permanent camp, with 3829 child weeks for the year. Its expenditure on wages alone was more than £2OOO a year and its butter hill amounted to £IBB9 last year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 112, 21 February 1941, Page 4
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