SUGGESTIONS TOR CAMP SUPPORT.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1935, Page 10

SUGGESTIONS TOR CAMP SUPPORT.

"One suggestion would be that the city should take over the responsibility of finding the finance, which I understand would be covered by an amount of £r2OOO a year. Children from other centres, of which there are ; quite a number in tho camp, could be admitted at a stated cost to those districts. It seems to me that it would be, a good investment for the city to spend this comparatively small amount,, and thus ensure that the children who have been handicapped through no fault of their own could be possibly made into healthy citizens. Another suggestion is that tho Unemployment Board, which now is accumulating a surplus, should make generous donations to these health camps. There is no doubt that many of these cases are the direct'results of unemployment, and tho fund could well be used, not only to assist men back into work, but also to repair some of the ravages caused through _ unemployment. A third suggestion is that some definite proportion of the art union proceeds which for some time have been devoted to the Mayor's distress fund should be definitely earmarked for the health camp. It is useless to depend entirely on voluntary efforts, particularly when tho work is being carried out at what must be a great cost both in.time.and money by the loyal band of helpers who have 'run' the. camp." Mr. Campbell said,; in conclusion, that it was unfortunate that the camp was so far away, from Wellington that the majority of citizens could not see for themselves:the actual work that was being done.. It was a job that was worth while, and he hoped, as he had indicated; that somei means would be evolved, perhaps from some of the suggestions .offered, w;hereby the committee would be relieved of their financial worry, and that the staff, which worked very hard for smail remuneration, would at least know that their services would be required for a definite period instead of their just carrying on from month to month as at present. The buildings soi generously placed by the Government -at the disposal of the committee, were admirably suited for the work, and With proper assistance could be made an ideal place where those children who were not so fortunate as most others could, be restored to full health and 'happiness. , ' _■" ■ ':