BLIND MEN IN QUEEN-STREET.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 270, 14 November 1910, Page 8

BLIND MEN IN QUEEN-STREET.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your issue of yesterday, I see iby an article that the blind men in Queen-street are to 'have rather a rough time. No doubt the constant grinding of "Ben Bolt," etc., etc., gete on the weak nerves of some people, and I think that the blind men who grind out these tilings would do (better for themselves if they moved more frequently. I suppose blind men come under the heading of "noxious weeds," and should be eradicated, if possible; but there is another side to this. Blind men ithere are, and most of them have been hardworking men and have still got their living to get. Would those people who so strongly object to the constant grinding of those good old tunes suggest some other way of earning a living that -would be more agreeahle to all parties concerned? I noticed another article giving praise to the Blind Institute for their strawberrybox making. In my opinion, if the trustees of the Institute were more liberal to those employed in the industrial department there -would -be no need for "Daisy" to give an answer or the remembrance of "Sweet Alice" to cause any annoyance to weak-nerved people. —1 am, eta, SYMPATHISER.