FEATHERSTON CAMP

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 6

FEATHERSTON CAMP

ADDITIONS NEARLY COMPLETED

7000 MEN IN TRAINING

Featlierston Military Camp, where, at the present time, about 7000 men are in training, is gradually taking on an air of completion, and in a month's time it is expected that the Public

Worlds staffs will have finished their work in the camp. The buildings now in course of erection include a new hospital, the frame of which is up, on a site immediately behind the present kiosk hospital. The new one will be an exact replica of the present hospital. Two hutments and a dining hall for medical orderlies has just been started, and aduitie-iis to the medical inspection quarters are under way. A mortuary, engineer's stores, and a new coai yard are among the recently-completed buildings .in the- main eamp. The programme yet to be carried out includes a cook-house for the hospital, another for the medical orderlies, nurses' quarters, medical officers' hut, and dental officers' hut.

The Canvas Camp. The canvas camp at Featherston, which adjoins the main camp, is also a permanent one, and the cooK-houses, dining-halls, etc., are built of wood. The cook-houses have been in use for some time. Recently-completed buildings now in use are a milk store, butchery, and washing-up stands. Roomy dining-halls to ' accommodate 300 men each have also been completed, and will be brought into use shortly. In the meantime large marquees are being used. _ 'In Both portions of the camp brick incinerators have been built, and will be handed over to the military authorities to-day. All garbage and night-soil will be disposed of -in these, special steel garbage carts having been provided to collect the garbage throughout the camps, and convey it to the incinerators. Tbo canvas camp now shares with tho main camp in having an adequate supply of pure water for drinking and washing purposes. Halls and Institutes. The rows and clusters of shops, saloons, and halls on the opposite sido of the road to the main camp have grown to large proportions. The canteen is still the biggest building there. It has received additions in the form of a bakery, which is being erected by the lessees, and a hutment for the use of the canteen staff. , The . Roman Catholic Institute, which is-being built is well under way, and will he an imposing building. Behind the Soldiers' Club another large hall is being erected for the use of soldiers of a number of denominations who have joined together to provide a first-class institute. Altogether the provision made for the recreation of soldiers at Featherston Camp are., very complete, and fully adequate to the needs, in this direction, of the large numbers of men in the camp.