HEALTH CAMPS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 8

HEALTH CAMPS

POSITION IN TARANAKI

Taranaki's share of the profits from health stamps will be £114 16s 5d. From this has to be deducted £20 16s 3d, constituting part of the expenses of the Post and Telegraph Department, leaving a nett balance of £94 0s 2d for the provincial executive. To that has to be added the executive's share of the proceeds of the art union and a donation of 10s, bringing the total distribution to £432 3s 9d. Until recently Taranaki had been sending groups of 15 children to the Wanganui health camp, but it is at present sending groups of 10 children to the Otaki camp, ' which, so headquarters state, must be regarded as the first camp to be made use of. The executive has, however, considered the possibility of sending another five children to Wanganui, but approval of the proposal must be given by the central council at Wellington before it can be put into effect. Mr. L. O. Hooker, Hawera, president of the Taranaki provincial executive, said that at a recent meeting of the executive it was felt that difficulties regarding financial support might arise during the war period, but special eflori.s would be made to encourage donations and the sale of health stamps, which this year would commence on October 1. The latest group of 10 Taranaki children went to Otaki on September 3 and will return on October 7. The next batch for Otaki will leave on October 9 and return on November 12. On November 14 another contingent will leave to return on December 18, while the final party will enter the camp on December 20 and return on January 30. The Taranaki Health Camp Association area, from which the children will be drawn, embraces Ihe districts of the Hawera, Stratford and New Plymouth hospital boards. The secretary of the organisation is Mr. H. Clifford-Jones, New Plymouth. At a conference of the central council of the health camp organisation at Wellington the following resolution was carried: — •'That as the finances of the district health camn executive are proving insufficient to cater for the aggregate needs of the central council's area, and realising the necessity for maintaining

the Otaki health camp at full strength, it be a recommendation to the Wanganui health camp trust board that in future its camp be utilised only as a secondary camp." A further resolution affecting the local area was to the effect that it be a recommendation to all district health camp executives that the quota allocated to the district executives for the admission of children to the Otaki health camp be strictly adhered to. The general council has notified the Taranaki executive that donations and subscriptions will be subsidised £2 for £1. This will not apply to proceeds from the sale of health stamps, from which the association's share is a penny a stamp. „