“In spite of the many other appeals, funds from the sale of health stamps and collections and donations this year reached the substantial total of £6010,” says the annual report of the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, discussing children’s health camps. “This sum, with the subsidy of £2 lor £1 to be received from art union funds, makes a total of £19,830 available for the maintenance of children. There is a growing appreciation among district executives and the public generally of the benefits which children derive from health camp life.” The report says that the King George V Memorial Fund Board, which is responsible for the capital expenditure, has contracted to build or extend existing camps at the following locations: —Auckland, Port Waikato, Wanganui, Gisborne, Otaki, Nelson, Christchurch, Roxburgh, and Invercargill. Negotiations are also in progress to acquire health camp sites in North Auckland and the centre of the North Island.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19410811.2.97
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 7
Word Count
153Untitled Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.