NEW WINTER GAMP

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 11

NEW WINTER GAMP

TAUHERENIKAU SCHEME

AN OPEN-AIR CANTEEN

PROVISION OF WIND SCREENS'.

Good progress is being made with the erection of the four canvas camps at Tauherenikau, intended during the coming winter for the segregation of recruits during the first month of their training. The new Canvastown is being pitched on the same site as that which has been occupiedl! by Reinforcement drafts at varying intervals since June, 1915.

Each of the. four sections will ha separated by an interval of 200 yards, and will be self-contained. The tents will be bell-shaped, not of thelndian pattern which is now in use in Trentham and Featherston Camps. In view of the high winds which blow in those parts it has been decided to protect each of the encampments by the erection of screens of birch and manuka, bound) with wire. These will be run at intervals across the camp, and should afford adequate shelter. Some small screens/ already in use 'have been found to be quite satisfactory. In order to reduce still further possible chances of .infection through the men mixing with one another at the canteen, it has been decided to jnalca the bar an open-air one. For this purpose the roof of the present canteen building will be extended so as to provide a verandah, thus giving the men 6ft to. Bft of cover throughout tho entire lengtti. The verandah will be on the sheltered! side, and the ventilation and general- arrangements of the existing canteen are being brought up to date.

There will be a medical inspection block, comprising' a small two-bed ward, for emergency cases, inhaling room, dispensary, medical officers' room, -waitingroom, and the usual sanitary conveniences.

A central supply store will be erected, also four subsidiary stores (one for each encampment), tho smaller establishments being stocked from the larger one. The cookhouses for the respective sections will be of the standard pattern as at Trentham 1 and Featherston. There will also be a smaller one for the officers, at which the instructors will g^t their rations. , • The camp will be provided with an up-to-date dental hospital, containing ten dental dhairs, extracting room, mechanical room, orderly room, officers', room, waiting room, cloak room, and store, all housed under one roof. There will be four social institutes in the camp, these being provided by the V.M.C.A., 'Church of England, Salvation Army,' and another by other religious denominations.

_The whole of the buildings erected will be of the standard military type-. The water supply is being taken from a tributary from the Tauherenikau River coming through a nitration bed to a storage tank, from which it is pUmped; into a series of smaller tanks, built sufficiently liigh to give an adequate pressure at the ablution and washing-up stands. .Tho tanks' havo a capacity for storing. Sufficient water fovthe camp for 24 hours.

Tho work of forming roads and footpaths to give adequate access to the camp from the main Featherston to Grßytown-road, and also through the ,ivariotis sections, is being proceeded with.