NEW WINTER CAMP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 3

NEW WINTER CAMP.

OPEN-AIR CANTEEN

PROVISION OF WIND SCRIiKNS

Good progress is being made -with the erection of the four canvas camps at Tattherenilcaiu, intended during the coming winter for the segregation' of recruits during the first munlli of their training (states the Post). The new OanvastawTi is being pitched on the .same site as that which has been occupied by Reinforcement drafts <it varying intervals sine© June, 1915. Each of the four sections will be separated by an interval of 200 yards, and will be self-contained. The tents will be bell-shaped; not of the Indian pattern which is now in use in Trentnain and Featherston Camps. In view of the high winds which blow in those part*, it has been decided to protect each of tho encampments by the erection /of screens of ' birch and manuka l>ound with- wire. These will be run at intervals across the camp, and should afford adequate shelter. Spono small screens already in use have been found to be quite "satisfactory. In order to reduce still further possible chances of infection through tn» nen' mixing with on© another at thei can;een, it has been decided to make tho Dar an open-air one- For this purpose the roof of the present canteen building will be extended so as to provide a verandah, thus giving the men 6ft to Bft of cover throughout the entire length. The verandah will be on the sheltered side, and the ventilation and general arrangements of the existing canteen are being brought up-to-date. There will be a medical "inspection block, comprising a small two-bed ward, for emergency cases, inhaling room, dis]>ensary, medical officers' room, waitingroom k and the usual sanitary conveniences.

A central supply store will- be erected , also four suWdtary stores (one for each encampment), the smaller establishments being stocked from the- larger one. The cookhouses for the respective sections will -be of the standard pattern, as at Trentham and Featherston. There will also be a smaller one for the officers, at which the instructors will get their rations.

Thei camp, will be provided with an up-to-date denta] hospital, 'containing ten dental chairs, extracting room, mechanical room, ' orderly .room, officers' 3-oom, waiting i-oonv }iloak room, and store, all housed under one roof. "There will be four social institutes in the camp, these being provided by the Y.M:C.A., Church of England, Salvatikra Army, and another by other religious denominations. \ The whole of the buildings erected will be of the standard military type. The waiter supply is being taken 'from a "tributary from tht .Tauhereniikau river coming through a filtration bed to a. storage tank, from which it is pumped'into a series of smaller tanks, built sufficiently high to give an adequate pressure at the ablution and washing-, up stands. The tanks haA'e a capacity for storing sufficient water for the camp for 24 hours. • .

■Tho work; of forming roruds and footpaths to give adequate access to tho camp from the main Feathevston to Greytown road, and also through the various sections, is being proceeded with.