HEALTH CAMP SITE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20952, 3 November 1939, Page 10

HEALTH CAMP SITE

AREA AT HOWICK PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Thursday The selection of a site of 17 & acres near Mellon’s Beach, Howick, is a step toward the establishment of Auckland’s permanent health camp, which is to be built with money allocated from the King George V Memorial Fund. The Auckland central council of the national children’s health camp organisation is awaiting the Health Department’s approval of the site, and will begin the construction of the camp immediately that is received. Plans are being* prepared for a camp to accommodate 100 children m winter and from 100 to 200 in summer. The permanent camp will cater for children for whom a short stay at the summer camps is not ficient, and will enable them to remain from six weeks to six months. Also, the camp will relieve the pressure on accommodation at the existing camps at Motuihi, Port Waikato and Campbell’s Bay. There was a | large increase in the number of ap- ' plicants to the health camps last ■ year. i j It is expected that the permanent ; camp will not be completed until October of next year. The health camp organisations will carry on as usual this summer. The camps at Motuihi and Port Waikato will be i held about December 20 and will i continue for six weeks.