BUILDINGS ON SOMES ISLAND HAVE BEEN SOLD
WELLINGTON, Sept. 4. Tlie main buildings on Somes Island in Wellington hiirhour, ineluding thosc dating back more tlian (i() years, have. been snld by Ihe War Assets Realisa tion Bonnl ari'l are in the proeess oi demnlitinn. The lYvo-storey buildings on the island were built as immigration barraeks. During the war of 1914-18 the island 1 wras an internment camp for .'100 prisoners and their guard who "built three new single-storev buildings. Duririy the 1019 influenza epidemie the Health Department opened aeeoinmodation foi 000 people. Three new bungalow .build ings were added on the Wellington side of the others, the total additional eost being £14,000. On several subsequent oeeasions the island was used as a quarantine station for contagious dis eases as well as for quarantining stock The Somes Island aeeoinmodation was used as an internment cainp again dur ing the reeent war, sinee the eonelusion of wliieh most of the buildings have been unoeeupied and have fallen more or less into disrepair. When the main mass of buildings is removed there wt'i! remain the stock slieds in well appoinl ed stock vards for the use of the De partment of Agriculture as quarantine quarters.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1947, Page 5
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