Hope Saddle Relief Camp

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 260, 29 July 1932, Page 13

Hope Saddle Relief Camp

Sir, —Seeing in “The Dominion” the remarks of an Akatarawa Camp relief worker prompts me to write you. I would like to draw your correspondent’s attention to the fact that his camp is a home in comparison with this one (Hope Saddle Camp, Nelson). We are isolated from everything. The Hope Saddle workers would esteem it a favour if they could have concerts fortnightly. We are situated between two towns, ranging approximately fifty miles apart. Our means of obtaining news from the outside world depends upon the generosity of passers-by who may drop a newspaper now and again. I would like to suggest that if some of your well-to-do readers would set us up a wireless we would regard it as the greatest pleasure we have. Amusement of any kind in Hope Saddle is a thing of the past If the above is impossible we would be truly grateful for a gramophone with records.

There is a great contrast between the Akatarawa Camp and the Hope Saddle. The Akatarawa workers have what w® look upon as luxuries, viz., wireless, a library, a piano, shower baths, and proper bath tubs, none of which we know here. It is just as well that the ocean divides us or we would all be in Akatarawa to-mor-row.—l am, etcC. E. KING. Hope Saddle, Nelson. July 22.