CHILDREN'S HEALTH CAMP
A correspondent writes: "I went to visit my children at the Otaki Health Camp, and on the way I met- a .woman who abused the camp methods severely. As her tirade, which was addressed to all she met, may do much-damage, I am sending you a letter from my son. It certainly does not sound as if it came from an -ill-treated child.". The letter reads as follows: — "Dear Mum and Dad.—l hope you are keeping well. I am nearly weeping my eyes out because I have to come home next Monday, and I think J— is staying. Up here the weather has been fine and the number of children will be made up to ninety on the twenty-second of this month. Each day we go for a paddle and this week we are going for a swim, as the weather is getting warmer: Well, I have no more to say, because I want to go and do some more weeping, for I don't want to come home. I remain, your unlucky son, ."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 8
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176CHILDREN'S HEALTH CAMP Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 8
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