ALL SAINTS’ BEACH HOME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2812, 18 November 1924, Page 2

ALL SAINTS’ BEACH HOME.

EXTENSIONS TO BE MADE. The proposals of the Al{l Saints’ Home trustees were outlined by Mr E. R. B. Ilolben at Palmerston N. on Saturday afternoon to the largo number of people who assembled to greet the children on the occasion of the Home’s seventeenth communal birthdav. Mr Holben stated that there were altogether sixty children under the eare of the Home and the idea was to give the children the benelii <>f a few weeks ni the seaside. With this aim, permission was granted by the Fox ton Harbour Board to the organisers to build a ‘‘shack” at the beach. Unfortunately this building was destroyed by fire. However, another one was erected by the generous support of the public, but this building was in need of additions, the cost of which was estimated at about £1,200. The greater portion of this sum had already been donated.

Twenty-four children, under school age, were always at the beach and as the atmosphere was better than medicine to the children, any suffering from minor ailments or convalescent, were removed to the beach. In the summer holidays, it -was proposed to have all the children at the cottage, hut this would he overcrowding the home unless the alterations and additions were effected. There was every possibilitv of a school being erected close to the beach cottage next year and this would be a blessing to the permanent children, some of whom could be at the beach and receive their education at the same time.

Timber to the value of £3OO, doors and sashes to the value of £lO4, drain pipes valued at £57, a cast in ni hath, £l2 10/-, domestic boiler, £.lO and a sixty-gallon copper circulator and parts valued at £2O have all been donated, together with sanitary arrangements, £6. Mr Akers has donated £SO towards the cost of the drainage scheme. The Fox ton Harbour Board have leased the section for a term of 21 years, free of charge, with the perpetual right of renewal.