HEALTH CAMP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 8

HEALTH CAMP

OPENING DAY FIXED GRANT OF £l5OO RECEIVED 20 CHILDREN TO START WITH The Wanganui Health Camp Trust Board decided yesterday tn open the Wanganui health camp at Gonville on Tuesday, February 28. Advice was received that the grant of £l5OO from the King George V. Memorial Fund had been approved and authority was given for the immediate furnishing and equipping of the building. Mr. Hope Gibbons presided and those present were Messrs. W. J. Rogers, E. F. Hemingway, A. G. Bignell, G. N. Boulton, R. G. Taiboys, and A. R. Donaldson (secretary). Various tenders were received and submitted to a sub-committee, which was given authority to buy equipment to meet the requirements of 50 children and the staff. A ladies’ committee of voluntary workers is to be formed to help as a sewing bee in making the large number of curtains required. Those who are willing to assist arc asked to communicate with the secretary. Inspection of Children The trustees decided to make immediate arrangements for the inspection of children requiring health camp treatment and schoolmasters and others who wish to nominate children will be supplied with application forms by the secretary. The board will meet at an early date to make suitable arrangements for the opening ceremony. It is intended to open the camp with 20 children and gradually build .he number of inmates up to the maximum of 50. Nurse Gillespie will be matron in charge of the camp and will arrive in Wanganui on February 20. She will be assisted temporarily by Nurse Grey, a senior officer of the Department of Health, who had considerable experience in health camp work under Dr. Elizabeth Gunn.