CAMPS FOR CONVALESCENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 2

CAMPS FOR CONVALESCENTS.

Speaking on -the subject of convalescent camps the. Hon. G. W. Russell. Health Minister, remarked thai, up fo Ihe proM-ttf. they have not been used lo the full extent'contemplated when tbey were establi7heil. At pro.son|, the lolal number of men in hospitals i.s ahou'-. 1.711. of whom MO arc at, Holorua, either in the sanatorium or at, King George the Fifth Hospital. In addition, there are 200 _ outpatients of tbe ordinary hospitals. The Holorua- camp is now iv full working order, and -the men (here are progrcs-iiiig favourably and rapidly. The* Internal Affairs Depa.rl incut has provided I'li.e-illieis for the men to go on Ihe lakes in one of the Govornmeti.l launches lish'ug., and fhe fish caucjjl, is being ii'seil ;il. the caniji. 'Pic co st. of maintenance has been reihiceil (i, ii reiu-ark-ably low figure. Tim btiilding.s at HaniiHT are pro- .,-,-, -,1,1..,- i-ripjdl--, and before long Ihey will be ready for opening.