HEALTH CAMP

Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 3

HEALTH CAMP

PERMANENT BUILDING PLANNED SOUTHLAND-CTAGO JOINT POSSESSION TENDERS CLOSING SHORTLY The latest step in providing a permanent health camp ‘ for Otago and Southland has been taken with the calling for tenders, which are to close on Friday, September 20. As a joint possession of the two provinces, there was some diversity of opinion as to the best site for the camp, which is to be named after King George V., but the I position chosen must, from the health ( point of view at any rate, be regarded by all parties as ideal. It will be built on portion of the golf course at Roxburgh, at the top of the motor camp. Golfers, by the way, are assured that the course will not thereby be impaired in any way. Two of the existing greens will be slightly altered, but that is all.' In this camp. 58 boys and girls will be accommodated all tic year round, and an additional 50 will be taken in over the summer holidays. In the drafting of the plans, attention has been paid to every requirement for the children. The site is on a plateau, and the ground slopes away on all sides from the centre. About this centre the main buildings are grouped, leaving a large oblong courtyard, which has been reserved for a playing area. It is to be 170 ft long, and 78ft wide. Surrounded by garden plots, it will contain two paddling pools, and beyond the gardens are covered ways which permit access to any part of the buildings in all weathers. I PLANNED ACCOMMODATION. Running lengthways on either side of the courtyard are dormitory blocks for boys and girls, with two dormitories in each block. In the centre of each, a locker room will lead off to bathrooms, showerrooms, and washrooms. There are also rooms for two V.A.D. workers in each block, one of whom will supervise each dormitory. At the northern end are two sunny classrooms, with terraces so that openair classes may he held in fine weather. To the southward, the common room and the dining room may be thrown into one large hall, 78ft by 30ft, The main entrance gives access to a reception room for visitors, a suite for the matron, teachers’ rooms, and the staff common room. There is also a dispensary, and a luggage storage room. SPECIAL BUILDING FOR SICK. Provision for the sick-inmates of the health camp is, of course, most important, and a small hill at the rear of the main block will be the site of the sick bay. This will contain a number of separate rooms for boys and girls, and a bedroom and sitting room for the nurse and attendants in charge. Also at the southern end is the kitchen, with rooms for general stores, a laundry and boiler room, and bunkers. All of the buildings will, of course, be centrally heated_ in wintertime. Adjacent to the kitchen, detached', but reached by a covered way, will be the kitchen staff building, with bedrooms and private sitting rooms for the staff. CONSTRUCTION DETAILS. Concrete foundations with framed timber walls will be the main items in the construction. The walls will be covered on the outside with flat asbestos'sheets, and on, the inside with fibrous plaster sheets above hard-hoard dadoes. The windows will be doublehung, ' and suspended on a new spiral spring which does away with the old cord and balance-weights. The roof will be of corrugated asbestos. As the building is a little way out of the town, special precautions have been taken in case of fire. These have been most extensive, and there will he very little to fear on that score. . < The plans were prepared by the associated architects, Messrs Miller and White, of Dunedin, and Mr Allan CFord, of Invercargill.