THE PROPOSED SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 184, 6 August 1890, Page 8

THE PROPOSED SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—-As you have followed bhe somewhat unusual course of permitting a long answer to a letter of mine, addressed to one of your contemporaries, to appear in your columns, I trust that you will allow me a very few lines of reply. Ib is evident that the person who read my lebber to your correspohdenbs has wilfully deceived them as to its contents and purport. I never asserted thab there were 33 blind children in New Zealand, when there are only 13 of the age to go to school. My whole argumenb was againsb the necessiby of any special school for blind children. Everybody musb wish to ameliorate the condition of the blind, whether children or adults, bub does anybody suppose that the latter can be taught any trade, except baskeb-making, by which they can earn their own.living? And certainly they can learn basket-making without having a special institution established. I should like to know how many of the persons who signed bhe letter in yourcolumnß were made or became blind in New Zealand? In conclusion, I would observe that personal abuse is not argumenb, and never benefits any cause, however good the cause may be. —I am, etc., R. H. Bakewkll, M.D.