CHILDREN’S CAMP

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 6

CHILDREN’S CAMP

SUMMER HOLIDAYS PORT WAIKATO ARRANGEMENT HOSPITAL STAFF’S GENEROSITY In recent months a considerable 1 amount of work has been done at the Waikato Children’s Camp League’s camp at Port Waikato in [ preparation for the arrival of the 300 children who this summer will be given a holiday at the seaside, j During the week-end employees of , the Hamilton Domain Board and the Hamilton Beautifying Society gave their assistance with haymaking on the property and advancing arrangements on the ground and in the dormitories. Final arrangements at the camp will be made during next week-end. The camp will open on December | 28, when the first lot of 150 child- 1 ren will leave from Hamilton. The change-over for the second contingent will be effected on January 15, when a further 150 will encamp. The first session in the camp will include children from Hamilton, Ngaruawahia Huntlv and Taupiri. No boys from Huntlv will go with the first contingent, but they will accompany the party of country children on January 15. Nurse Appointed Prefects have already been appointed and the stores have been placed in the camp. Nurse L. R. M. Trickett (Auckland) has been appointed by the Health Department for duty at the camp. .... The former double-deck bunks in the dormitories have been dismantled and have been replaced with stretchers. The first instalment of the work to be done under the King George V Memorial Fund is the supply of lockers for the children, and 150 of these, one for each child, have been placed in the camp. A generous action was taken by the sisters and laundry staff at the Waikato Hospital during the weekend. when it was decided to forego the usual Christmas presents and donate the money to the Camp League. Each Christmas it is the custom for the sisters at the institution to conduct a bran tub, from which each sister receives a present. This year, however, it was decided to send the money to the Camp League, and a donation of £l, representing money which in the ordinary course of events would have been devoted to presents, was also forthcoming. In all, £7 10s was received by the League from this source.