GISBORNE HEALTH CAMP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 15

GISBORNE HEALTH CAMP

SITE AT WAINUI BEACH CENTRAL COUNCIL TO ACT COMPARISON AVI Til OTAKI Figures comparing the cost of caving for a child in the experimental Gisborne health camp and the Otaki health camp were quoted at a recent meeting of the Gisborne Health Camp Committee by the honorary treasurer, Mr. W. Ogilvie, and it was learned that two children from the Gisborne district could be treated in Gisborne for the same cost as for one Gisborne child at Otaki. The deputy Mayor. Mr. H. Holmes, was in the chair. It was decided to communicate with the New Zealand central council with reference to the taking over of the section at' Wainui Beach which had been donated by Miss Winifred Lysnar, and also to write to Miss Lysnar congratulating her on her public spiritedness in making the gift. The letter to the donor was also to acquaint her with the move to place the matter before the authorities in Wellington and asking if she would consult the honorary solicitor of the association, Mr. K. A. Woodward, in regard to the conditions of the gift. It was thought, in reference to her request, that the land should be handed over to the Gisborne Borough Council for a reserve, in the event of it not being required for a camp, as some difficulty might be caused on account of the fact that the local committee was requiring the Government to erect a building on the section. It was decided that the association should be incorporated and known as the Poverty Bay and East Coast District Association of Children’s Health Camps. Detailed Statement It was reported that the capital expenditure totalled £336 9s 6d, made up of the purchase of plant amounting to £221 9s 6cl and loss through the fire at the Park Domain, £ll9. . The treasurer reported that the total cost of maintenance for 20 children and a staff of five in the temporary camp for six weeks, and including the fares of children from the Coast, £7 13s 3d, came to £ll6 17s 2d, was an average of 15s 6d per week per person in the camp. In comparison the costs at Otaki were given: Maintenance for six weeks, £4 14s; fares and board, £3 8s; fares from the Coast, average, 13s 4d; average [per week, £1 10s lid. By encamping the children in Gisborne two were able to have the benefits of the camp, instead of only one child, through sending them to Otaki. The total cost of operating the temporary camp was made up of the following items of major importance: Wages, £39; groceries, £3O 9s sd; bread, £4 5.s 9cl: milk, £l3 3s; meat, £2 14s 4d; laundry, £9; gas and firing, £5 13s Id; vegetables and sundries, £4 8s 4d; fares, £7 13s 3d; cleaning, 10s. Delegate for Wellington In view of the retirement of the committee’s delegate, Mr. Hulbcrt, from business in Wellington, the meeting of the central council at an early date, and the importance of the next conference,' which would deal with the. decision" concerning the venue of the new camps, it was decided to send a delegate to press the claim of Gisborne for a camp. If Mr. Hulbert was not available to attend to the affairs of the Gisborne committee, the delegate from Gisborne would interview a Wellington business man with a view to having him take over the district’s representation.

It was decided to write to the chairman of the Waiapu Hospital Board, Mr. A. J. H. Kirkham, thanking him for his assistance to the committee.