OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 139, 15 June 1933, Page 17

OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

R.S.A. EFFORT

The Wellington Eetuvnod Soldiers' Association has decided to send twenty children of ex-servicemen to the Otaki Health Camp for a period of three months at a total cost of £120. At a meeting of the association's executive committee last night it was .stated that/four ''children had been kept at the camp and the results had been extremely beneficial. The question as to whether a greater number of children should be sent there was held over until last night's meeting, which was the first meetiujj of the .newly-appointed executive. The, ' chairman, Colonel B. Cowles, and other members of JJie.* executive expressed appreciation, of the work that was bting ■accomplished-; at the health camp. '■■■ ■ .■•'"■■■'•' ■. ; >.- ; ■ ~ Captain H. T. Marshall, moved that the association should "> pay the expenses for twenty more children to go to the camp. "I think it would be. an excellent idea>" said Colonel Cowlqs.''."Many of' these children' are iii frightful ,'cireum'stances.

;■■■'■.■'■ . ■ T think we would be doing a.: very good-tliihp-for. some of our comrades if we sent theso extra children: .to . the Camp.1':, ,* > ■ '■ ' " "i-1-",.;. ;