An interesting water feature in the Whareroa Farm Park.
I have not been able to find out if this was built when this area was used to house the 4,650 men from the 5th Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division and the 6th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division. During WWII this area was known as Camp MacKay.
The camp included 25 concrete tent floors, which would have housed two, four and 8-man tents as other camps did. It also included a large number of Officers’ billets, an Officers’ Club, three recreational buildings, the Divisional Headquarters and accompanying accommodation, a canteen, a bulk store, a brig (jail), ablution blocks, laundries and showers.
The remnants from this camp include: concrete water supply supports, a concrete floor from the old recreation building, a reservoir intake, an old dump site, and marker boulders.
If not part of the WWII camp water supply, this area may have been the site of the Imhoff sewage treatment plant, installed with an eye to its possible future use for servicing hospital buildings, when the land was originally owned by the Wellington Hospital Board .
Short walk and a stopping point on the way to the good cache: Cairn View (Wellington) GC4WEPZ
You are looking for a 500ml plastic container and should be an easy find.
Please bring your own pen / pencil
Any online found logs not matching the logsheets will be removed