HEALTH CAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 8

HEALTH CAMPS

KING. GEORGE V. MEMORIAL FUND ESTABLISHMENT OF BOARD AND COMMITTEE. BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The appointment of a board to administer the King George V Memorial Fund is provided for in a Bill which was introduced by Gover-nor-General’s Message in the House of Representatives yesterday. A preamble to the Bill states that the fund established by the Government in 1937 to provide children’s health camps in New Zealand as a memorial to King George V now amounts to £177,635 10s 6d, of which one-half was raised by public subscription and the other half provided by the Government.

The board is to be known as the King George the Fifth Memorial Fund Board. It is to consist of the Minister of Health, who will be chairman; the Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, who will be deputy-chairman; the president of the New Zealand Municipal Association (at present Mr T. Jordan, Mayor of Masterton); the president of the New Zealand Counties Association; and the president of the New Zealand Hospital Boards’ Association. The general function of the board will be to administer the fund for the purpose of establishing, improving and maintaining children’s health camps. The board is also to be authorised to make grants to the National Federation of Health Camps, or to any other body engaged in the promotion or administration of children’s health camps.

An advisory committee is to be appointed, and the appointments will be made by the Minister of Health. It is stipulated that in addition to the other members he may appoint there are to be on the committee representatives of the Department of Health, the Education Department, the Post and Telegraph Department, and the National Federation of Health Camps or of some similar organisation. The Minister may appoint to the committee by virtue of their offices the members of the Dominion Advisory Board of the Federation.

Local authorities and others, including trustees of savings banks, are authorised to contribute to the fund. All contributions made to the fund before the passing of the Bill are to be validated.