THE HEALTH CAMP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 8

THE HEALTH CAMP

A GENEROUS DONATION EXPENDITURE TO BE MET The secretary of the Trust Board of the Wanganui Children's Health Camp (Mr A. R. Donaldson) has received a cheque for £25, being a grant from the Raetihi Sunday Pictures Fund Committee to the Health Camp Fund. The cheque was accompanied by an expression of the committee’s best wishes for the early completion of the health camp. The generous donation has been very gratefully acknowledged by the secretary of the Trust Board, who has explained that no stone is being left unturned by the local committee in its efforts to expedite the earlyopening of the camp. The chairman of the Trust Board (Mr Hope Gibbons) has just returned from Wellington, where he placed the position before the Dominion Advisory Board, and it was there stated that grants for capital expenditure from the King George V. Memorial Fund could not be considered until the Government had appointed trustees to control the fund. This will be done as quickly as possible but may require legislation to give effect to the Government’s proposals, but in the meantime two medical officers Of the Health Department are to visit the various areas to obtain first-hand knowledge of what is actually reouired at each centre. In the meantime, the Wanganui Health Camp trustees have got to wait in patience and it seems most unlikely that the funds required to complete the equipment of the local camp can be expected before February or March at the earliest. The delay is most disappointing to the local trustees who, by their own efforts, have accumulated assets to the value of £5225 and have paid for other work done on the lite to the extent of £1250. It is estimated that the following]

expenditure has to be met before the camp can be opened:—■ £. Furnishing and general equipment 500 Laundry and kitchen plant 100 Fencing and grounds improvement 200 Completion of cottage for staff ... 250 Balanoe owing to City Council for building 100 Rates ... 137 Contingencies 213 £l5OO An application for a grant for these purposes has been lodged with the Dominion Advisory Board and If the application is granted, as there is every hope that it will be, the local trustees will be enabled to complete their arrangements to accommodate 50 children, thus relieving the pressure on the Otaki Health Camp and ensuring that the children in the Wanganui area will be no longer neglected.