HEALTH CAMP.
MAKARAKA SCHEME. CONTRACT TO BE LET SOON. GISBORNE, this day. A contract will be let soon for the construction on the park and domain at Makaraka of the Gisborne health camp, for which the district has been allotted £6000. The building will accommodate 28 children from Gisborne and the East Coast. Airiness will be a feature of the structure, which will have two - dormitories, in each of which provision will be made for 14 beds. Almost completely surrounded by outside well-windowed walls, the building will be 140 feet long. There will be two isolation rooms, staff bedrooms and an office. A "school playroom is to be at one end of the long building, and almost completely isolated from it, while at the other end will be the dining room, kitchen, staff dining room and laundrv. Open porches are provided for at either end of the building. The main staff quarters are tc be in a separate building. Provision is to.be made for a building with four bedrooms and sitting room for the matron, and another for the staff. This building is to be 28 feet by 38 feet at its greatest dimensions, and will stand dose to the main camp structure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1940, Page 5
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203HEALTH CAMP. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1940, Page 5
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