HEALTH CAMP APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 13

HEALTH CAMP APPEAL

PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS

To ensure the Health Camp atOtaki being open throughout the year and to care for five hundred children over the twelve months, the committee requires at least two thousand subscribers at £1 per year, or 10s halfyearly, and will welcome subscriptions from interested citizens. The response of tho children in improved health, increase of weight, happier temperaments, better behaviour,- due to sunshine, fresh air, proper food, regular habits, and early hours is very striking, and is evidence in itself of tho need for the camp and of the great benefit it confers. Children do not miss their schooling, as the Education Board has constituted the camp a school, and supplies two teachers, who conduct the lessons out-of-doors under the firs in fine weather. The balance-sheet will reveal the strict economy exercised, and also that the staff gives its services, almost in a voluntary capacity. The cost per week per child, including all overhead charges, is a little more than 10s. The Health Camp is absolutely nondenominational, the children's needs being their recommendation, irrespective of creed, colour, race, or position. If funds permit one hundred undernourished children will be placed in the camp over the Christmas holidays. The following contributions have been received:—Te Horo Women's Institute, £3 3s Gd; Bridge afternoon, Day's Bay, per Mcsdames Skelly and Wilson, £4 7s Gd; Mr. Grantham, £3; St. Martin's Sunday School, 10s; Ladies' of Day's Bay, per Mrs. Martin, £3 13s; Wellington South Nursing Division, 6s 6d; Play reading (Mahina Bay), per Mesdames G. V. Bogle and C. 5. McKinnbn, £8 15s; Upper Hutt Home and School Association, £1 Is; Mr. F. Washburn (Timaru), ss; Hastings Rotary Club, £4; Mrs. Len George, £1; Mr. F. J. Ramsay (Levin), £1; Herbert Ross, £3 3s.