Single Men’s Camp.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18505, 25 May 1932, Page 3

Single Men’s Camp.

NOW SETTLING DOWN.

GOOD WORK BEING DONE

APPRECIATION OF WORKERS

The 64 unemployed single men who arrived from Auckland to go on road work for the Coromandel County Council, have now settled down well. They are doing good work which will be of great advantage to the settlers. Large nikau whares have been constructed by the men themselves with large punga fireplaces for drying clothes and sitting round in the evenings, and the camps are now quite comfortable, except for the fact that some of the men are very short of blankets.

Another 20 men are expected next week and this will make the full complement for Otama. Some 30 men are at Coroglen engaged in the metalling of the Tapu-Coroglen-Mer-cury Bay Road. The following letters have been received from the Otama Camp, where 34 men are established:

To the Citizens of Mercury Bay and Fellow Diggers:

On behalf of the eight Diggers in the Otama Relief Camp, I wish to tender our deepest thanks to you all for the prompt and open-hearted way in which you all responded in tho gifts of money. We also thank the sports of Mercury Bay in the way they answered to the call and their thoughtfulness in thinking of our comfort and welfare. In conclusion, [ should like to say that any further gifts or help 'will be gratefully received by the committee. M. WEBBER, On behalf of the Diggers. To the Residents of Mercury Bay and Surrounding Districts: On behalf of the men at the Otama Camp, I wish to express appreciation and thanks to everyone for the wonderful and generous response to our appeal. You have my assurance that your kindness has helped the .men very much, and i I wish to fuithei assure you that all gifts will be fairly and justly distributed .—Yours faithfully, GARRY H. JENKIDJ. Otama Camp.