CHILDREN FOR MOTUIHI.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19373, 2 April 1935, Page 2

CHILDREN FOR MOTUIHI.

TWENTY-TWO FROM THAMES. Three Weeks At Camp. COMMITTEE’S ARRANGEMENTS. £34 CHEQUE FROM MINISTER. The Minister for Health, Sir Alexander Young, in a letter to the re-cently-formed Thames Children’s Health Committee, expresses pleasure at the initiation of the local movement to promote the welfare of delicate children. The Minister states that there is already standing to the credit of the Thames postal district a sum of £34 4/4, being the net proceeds of the sale of health stamps prior to the year 1934-35, for which accounts have not yet been completed. Possibly from this source another £l2 or so will be available. In the meantime the Minister has arranged to have the sum of £34 paid to the Thames organisation. At a meeting of the committee, the secretary, Rev. A. Fear, reported that arrangements are well in hand for sending the 22 children from Thames to the Motuihi Health Camp on Thursday next. Under the secretary’s care, the children will leave Thames at 5.30 a.m., so as to connect with the boat leaving Auckland at 9.15 a.m. for Motuihi. Three private cars have been generously placed at the disposal of the committee for the conveyance of the children to Auckland. After three weeks on the island the children will return on April 24, when cars will meet the boat on arrival at Auckland to bring them back to Thames.

In some of the needy cases the children have been fitted out with clothes by the local Relief of Distress Committee.