CHILDREN'S CAMP

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24759, 6 December 1943, Page 4

CHILDREN'S CAMP

PIGEON MOUNTAIN SITE BUILDING TO START SOON About 20 acres with a beach frontage at Pigeon Mountain was bought by the Auckland Central Council of the New Zealand Federation of Health Camps three years ago, but security and other reasons delayed the erection of the buildings. Now the Auckland council has been assured that labour and materials will be made available soon after Christmas. Preliminary road construction and tree planting are already under way, and in three or four months the camp should be completed. The total cost will bo in excess of £30.000 and eventually it mav amount to nearlv £50.000. The expense of health camps in various parts of the country is being met by the subsidised King George V. Memorial Fund, amounting to £IBO.OOO. Permanent camps have been built at Roxburgh, Central Otago, at Christchurch and at Otaki In addition to the Pigeon Mountain camp, another at Taupo is projected, the scheme being to provide both inland and seaside vacations. Pigeon Mountain is about 12 miles from the city and is reached by way of a turn-off from the Bucklands Beach road. The honorary secretary of the Auckland central council of health camps, Mrs. B. J, McKendrick, stated yesterday that the new establishment might not be put into use until next summer. During the coming holiday season from 350 to 400 children would be accommodated at Campbell's Bay with the cooperation of the Methodist Central Mission. and at Port Waikato. M-here the camp is under the direction of the central council. From December 20, 50 children will be taken to Campbell's Bay for a fortnight during the period of the school holidays, and then the place will again be available to mothers and other women in need of a vacation. CHURCH PARADE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE The annual church parade of the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association was held at the Pitt Street Methodist Church yesterday morning. About 50 members attended, and Messrs. Arthur Rosser and J. B. Paterson read the lessons. The preacher, the Rev. E. T. Olds, spoke from the text Kxodus xviii., in which Jethro counselled Moses to choose from the people able men to judge small matters at all seasons. .Mr. Olds said that the qualities demanded of a justice to-day, to fear God, to be truthful and to* hate covetousness, were the same as Moses laid down, with the recognition that to understand their fellow-men, they had to understand his relationship to God. COST OF APPEALS An indication of the cost involved in bringing witnesses from essential industries to sittings of appeal boards was given when the Industrial Manpower Appeal Committee heard a case at Port Chalmers. It was pointed out by Mr. F. M. Hanan, who represented the Stevenson and Cook Engineering Company, Limited, during an appeal, that the afternoon's proceedings would cost the Government up to £IOO because of time lost through foremen and other employees being called away from their work for several hours.