RELIEF CAMP LIFE
thoroughly enjoyed by wellington youth "FOREMAN LIKE GRANDPA" A healthy happy life amid pleasant surroundings is enjoyed by the relief camp workers at Opunake, according to a young W ellington man. "I have put on half a stone already," he states in a letter to his father, written not long after his arrival. There are no grumbles or complaints in this int'mate Iktl-?. picture of camp conditions. One of a party "rav/ recruits" from the city, the writer obviously has been pleasantly surprised by the nature of the aceomodation, the quality of the food and the facilities for both work and recreation. "We arrived at nine o'clock at night, and the cook was waiting with a three-course dinner for us," states the letter. "As he was expecting 40 men and only 16 turned up, we had a great feed. I am writing this by a big log fire in my tent and it is so hot that I can hardly sit by it. " and I have a tent to ourselves, and we are very comfortable. The floor is a wooden one raised off he ground a foot high. Our beds are. stretchers with straw mattresses, and when we get to bed we make up a big log fire which warms the tent up. The wood is quite handy, and there is plenty ofitTas the hills are covered for miles and miles with big trees. 'We have a big dining-room which serves for a dance hall. We are all going to town on Monday in lorries to a eommunity sing, and next Friday the farmers are coming to a dance at the camp. "The meals are more than I expected. For breakfast to-day (Sunday) we had porridge, sausages, bacoti, and bread and butter; for dinner, soup roast beef, roast potatoes, and plum duff; for tea, pea soup, roast mutton, potatoes and pineapple and jelly. The boys are all local lads exce.pt our sixteen and we all pull together and make a happy crowd. 'The foreman is just like grandpa and he thinks a lot of us Wellington lads. He bought us a £60 jack and gave a paddock to stump, while the others make a two mile road through dense bush. . . The prettiest sight I ever saw is the mountain early in the morning when the sun is shinihg on the snow."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 2
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