HOUSING OF FAMILIES
USE OF CAMP SUGGESTED
PALMERSTON SHOWGROUNDS
O.C. PALMERSTON N., this day. With the object of obtaining the use of the large Showgrounds military ordnance camp as a transit camp for the accommodation of families needing houses, the Palmerston North City Council is pressing the matter upon the Defence authorities. It has also been suggested that the site of the former small military camp at Hokowhitu be used, but the latter lacks the amenities of the Showgrounds, where facilities are plentiful. It will be recalled tnat the Showgrounds buildings housed several hundred Napier families who were evacuated after the earthquake there in 1931. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 199, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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