A PRAISEWORTHY SCHEME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11251, 16 April 1908, Page 6

A PRAISEWORTHY SCHEME.

' / (Per Press Association.^ AUCKLAND, this day. Tlie Health Department is about to inaugurate a scheme that has been in contemplation for some years. Tlie proposal is in tlie direction of providing suitable employment for people who have been at the various State sanatoriums ! and have recovered from consumption. The details of the scheme are withheld • for the present, but it will be on tlie lines of enabling the people referred to :' to earn a living in a manner that shall be of benefit not only to themselves but ' to the State. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, this day. In reference to the Auckland telegram * relative to the employment of consump--1 tives, the Hon. Mr Fowlds. Minister for Public Health, informed a Perss reporter last night that the employment would be in connection with the tree-planting ope- ■ rations of the Lands Department. Expatients would be provided with a sepa- ' rate camp and be paid the ordinary rate of wages paid by the Department for labor at tree-planting. They would thus ' t have the benefit of an open-air life until ' they got hardened up and able to go to other employment. The great drawback ■ in connection with patients coming from the Cambirdge sanatorium was that they ' could not go back to ordinary office oc--1 cupations, and if they did, they probably [ lost before lorf£ the benefits they had derived from the sanatorium treatment. ' The experiment would be tried first in ■ the neighborhood of Whakarewarewa, 1 where tree-planting operations were now ! being carried on. When the South Is- : land santoria were in operation, the same facilities for employment at tree-plant-ing would no doubt be made available. amaaammmmmmm^ammmmma