LATE DR. PATERSON

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 300, 15 September 1937, Page 6

LATE DR. PATERSON

Tribute to Work for Health Camp At a meeting of the Wellington District Children’s Health Camp executive held recently the chairman, Dr. 11. E. Gibbs, referred to the great loss sustained in the death of Dr. Ada Paterson, who since . the inception of the Otaki Children’s Health Camp had taken a real practical interest in its affairs. Dr. Gibbs mentioned that the present efforts of the Health Camp Association had originated from a keen realisation of the fact that in the Wellington district many delicate and under-nourish-ed children had no opportunity of growing strong without some means of escape to an environment where Nature might exert her healing influence. Dr. Ada Paterson, the first chairman of the association, was mainly responsible for the arrangements which permitted these children to undergo treatment at the Otaki Health Camp, and her memory would long remain with those who had the privilege of being associated with her in this great work. Dr. Gibbs stated that the executive would in the near future formulate a recommendation to commemorate by a fitting memorial the invaluable work rendered by the late Dr. Ada Paterson.