MILITARY CAMPS

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 25, 18 October 1940, Page 6

MILITARY CAMPS

More Improvements In New Zealand

Another £2OOO was voted to the comforts fund for the New Zealand Forces in Grqat Britain at a -meeting of the standing committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board. Other decisions were made by the committee to improve the recreational facilities- al a number of the home defence points and training centres, including the territorial camps. The GovernorGeneral, Lord Galway, presided ovtr the meeting. . Others, present were Mr. Perry, M.L.C., Mr. Coates, M.P., Mr. Schramm, M.P., Mr. C. Todd and the secretary of the board, Mr. G. A. Hayden. Approval was given to the erection of Y.M.C.A. huts at the Wigram, Blenheim and Levin Air Force training centres, and for furnishings, ii ; billiard table, and a piano to be provided'for the recreation hut for the anti-aircraft battery at Mt.' Victoria, Wellington. liecreation facilities were also approved for three of the guard stations around Wellington. The Salvation Army hut at Trentham Camp is io be extended by the addition of another room. Marquees or other temporary recreation quarters were approved- for rhe following territorial camps: Whangarei, Avondale, Epsom, Te Arolia,. Rotorua, Cambridge, Claudelands, Te Rapa, Waverley, Wanganui, Foxton, Dannevirke, Addington, Forbury Park (Dunedin) and Wingatui (Dunedin). Approval was also given for a Church of England hut with fur.Ashings at Waiouru Camp. Authority was given for a supply of comforts’ to be made through the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council for the benefit of the men at the naval base at Auckland. It was decided to send a supply of thick -underclothing to men on minesweepers operating in the North Sea. A grant was made to the El-Naval Men’s Association, Wellington, for the entertainment of naval ratings. It was decided to make a cash grant available for use on board ship to the officer in charge of each draft of Air Force 1 men proceeding to Canada from New Zealand.