TRENTHAM REVISITED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2595, 18 October 1915, Page 3

TRENTHAM REVISITED

PRIME MINISTER'S IMPRESSIONS. The great improvements effected recently at Trentham camp were remarked upon by the Prime Minister in conversation with a Dominion reporter after Mr. Massey had returned from a visit to the camp yesterday. "Great improvements have been made since I last visited the camp about a month ago," 6aid Mr. Massey. "A new hospital building with accommodation for about 150 beds will be completed to-morrow, the construction having occupied just 16 days. The building is after the new plan, similar in style to the Tea Kiosk at Trentham racecourse, which proved so useful during the epidemic of sickness a few months ago. The other hospital, which Y.'as finished last winter, is now in use, and a number of patients have been moved there from the Trentham racecourse buildings. All the streets and footpaths have been given a coating of river gravel, in some places to a depth of 18 inches. The water channels are .all concreted. A new drying house, thoroughly up to date in plan and equipment, has been erected for the purpose of drying the men's elotl-es in wet weather. Jn the bath house there are now 100 shower baths, with hot and cold water, ready for use. 1 A very commodious goods shed has been erected 1 , into which railway tracks can be' run for the purposo of discharging camp supplies. Suitable storehouses have been built, ono for meat and one for milk, with every possible contrivance for keeping these commodities fresh und in good condition during the hot weathor. "So far as I can see, very little remains to bo done. A gentleman whom I met who had seen nearly all the military camps in England and several in said something to this effect, that in his opinion Trentham camp was now the best camp in the world. "There are not many soldiers there at present—sometliingless than 1000 —2000 of those formerly in Trentham having gone out to tho new camp at Mungaroa. A very large number of new men are coming into Trentham during the present week.' 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 eventualities, even if the war lasts for another two years."