GIFT TO HEALTH CAMP

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 7

GIFT TO HEALTH CAMP

LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN

■ There, jvas a large'., attendance lastnight when members plrthe Legion of frontiersmen foregathered for a social evening, the main purpose of which Was to present tho Otaki Health Camp Committee with a cheque, which the .chairman 'described as an earnest of better things to come. In presenting the cheque to Dr. H. E. Gibbs, chairman of the Otaki Health Camp Committee, Legion Captain H. G. Burton said that the Legion of Frontiorsmen had a record of which any body might be proud. Founded thirty years ago in London, the organisation was now world-wide; its beginnings had been difficult, but it had done good'service before 1914, and in the war 9000 of its members had lost their lives. The Legion still stood for service to the community and to the Empire, and, as the future of the Empire depended upon the children of today, and nothing hindered the progress • of- a nation 80 much as sickness, he thought that no institution in the country was more deserving of help than that to which the Legion was devoting its attention. ■On behalf, of the committee'of the Otaki Health Camp, Dr. Gibbs thanked heartily the members of the Legion for their gift, as material evidence of the good will they bore towards the work tho committee was carrying out. There was no better way of helping the nation in peacetime than to help the children back to health. "Before I took up this position,", continued Dr. Gibbs, "I did not realise how great the need for such a health camp was. I did not realise then how large was the number of children suffering from malnutrition. The need was great indeed."

Dr. Gibbs then gavo a lecturctte illustrated by a film showing the work in progress at the camp, and alsd one on tho kindergarten in Taranaki Street.

Mr. B. Brown gave a piano solo, and Mr. A. Elston and Lance-Corporal Bennett sang. Mr. Campbell sang "On the Road to Mandalay" and "There's No Discharge from the Army," and Mr. H. F. Wood, who was repeatedly recalled, sang "Good-bye," "Funiculi, Funicula," "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes," and "Charmaine." The evening concluded with the toast "Absent Comrades."