PAINTING A CAMP
20,000 Square Yards To Be Covered A . Forty painters are going t 0 work six weeks painting the 80 new buildings already completed at the Central District Mobilization Camp, Trentham. They will paint more than 10,000 square jaids of walls and an equal aggregate area of roofs. So far the buildings have had only the priming coat, a sickly pink. A start has been made with the new coating Each man will do 60 to 70 square yards a day. The colours chosen for the buildings will give the camp a fine appear-ance-light green for the walls and darker green roofs. Private contractors are doing the work under the supervision of Mr. J. Rogers, painting . overseer. Public Works Department.
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 9, 9 February 1940, Page 2
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122PAINTING A CAMP Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 9, 9 February 1940, Page 2
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