OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 113, 15 May 1934, Page 16

OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

ODDS BECOMING TOO GREAT

TRIBUTE TO WORK IM HAND

The work being done by the undenominational Otaki Health Camp Committee was praised with enthusiasm by Mr. C. H. Pinnock at last night's annual meeting of the- Wellington School Committees and Educational Federation upon his being re-elected for a further term as the delegate to that body. The children who had been lucky enough to enter that institution, he said, had made wonderful progress, and he cited instances of children who liked the camp so well that they wished to remain there. The question of finance was worrying the committee, and he was sorry to say that there was a distinct prospect of the committee being unable to keep the camp open. That would bo very undesirable. The camp was the only one of its kind in New Zealand which was able to keep functioning the whole year round.

At present there were' 35 sick or under-nourished children in the camp, which was designed to accommodate 50 boys and 50 girls. The.ro were somp 100 children on the waiting list, and ovev 500 children had received ths benefits of the camp already, many of them having added- 8 to 10 pounds in -weight during six or eight weeks' residence. Schoolchildren's collections were the mainstay of the finances. Wonderful men md women were doing a noble -work without stint, and he was glad to be able to do his little bit to the same end, said Mr. Pinnock.