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Institutes, Trentham Gamp. The following facts in connection with the various institutes at both Trentham and Featherston Camps may prove of interest. There are seven institutes, including the Soldiers' Club, exclusive of the lecture-hall, which, when not in use, by the troops for lecture purposes, is utilized as a, picturetheatre. The institutes have a total superficial area of 21,865 ft., which affords accommodation for 2,500 persons. The, Soldiers' Club was designed and the construction superintended by the Works Branch, ft affords accommodation for warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, and is provided with billiard-tables, &c. Institutes, Featherston Camp. Featherston and its subsidiary camps are, similarly to Trentham, provided with institutes, Soldiers' Club, and picture-theatre. The Soldiers' Club was designed and the construction superintended by the Works Branch. The whole of the, institutes at both Trentham. and Featherston Camps are electrically lighted, the current being supplied from, the camp power-houses free of charge. Plans in connection with the Camps. The locality "and block plans for both Trentham and Featherston Cam [is, and the detailed plans in connection with the more important works constructed by the Works Branch, are attached to this report [not reproduced]. Buildings constructed outside the Expeditionary Forob Training-cam ps. The following large hospital works were designed and the work commenced under the superintendence of the Works Branch: - Rotorua Military Hospitals. There are two separate schemes for additional accommodation to King George Hospital, Rotorua, the plans and specifications, &c, for which were prepared by the Works Branch. The original scheme, which embraced the buildings, &c, specified below, is now completed, and the constructional work on the second scheme, which is separately detailed, is well advanced. It should, however, be noted that further additions to th(! second scheme, are now under consideration by the DirectorGeneral of Medical Services, and consist of further housing accommodation for nurses, masseuse, and V.A.D.s. King George Hospital Original scheme : — (a.) Two blocks, containing three main wards and one, single-bed ward in each block, with separate annexes, giving a total accommodation for seventy-four patients. (b.) One block to accommodate eight, officers in single rooms, with billiard-room, lavatories, &c. (c.) Three barrack-room blocks for orderlies, providing accommodation for sixteen noncommissioned officers and seventy men, with a common sitting-room in one block. (d.) Bathhouse building, containing swimming-bath, Aix bath, &c, and massage-rooms (now to be further enlarged to medical requirements), hot-water supply from thermal spring. (c.) Drying-room. (/.) Vocational workshops. (g.) V.M.C.A. Institute. King George Hospital Second scheme : The second and additional scheme comprises a new Orthopaedic Hospital with administrative, buildings, Medical Officers' quarters, nurses' quarters, Ordnance stores, and certain reappropriations to the original King George Hospital buildings for office and store accessories. The details of the ward accommodation are ;is follows : (a.) Four wards to accommodate thirty-two patients in each ward. (6.) Eight single-bed wards, (c.) Two two-bed wards. (d.) Central kitchen administration to deal with the whole of the hospital buildings on Pukeroa Hill. Pukeora Military Sanatorium, Waipukurau. The Sanatorium at Waipukurau in course of construction provides accommodation for patients, &c, as follows :— (((.) Main Block, fourteen beds distributed in one-, two-, and three-bed wards. (b.) Shelters for single and two-beds, to accommodate s ■ventv-two patients. (c.) Administrative block, kitchen and dining blocks, lavatory annexes, non-commissioned officers' and men's barrack-rooms, senior and junior Medical Officers' quarters, nurses' quarters, recreation-room, V.M.C.A. social hall, workshops, laundry, power-house, X-ray room, farm-manager's cottage, &c. In addition to the buildings mentioned in the foregoing, further provision for fifty single-bed shelters has been approved, and the plans for same are now in course of preparation.

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