A CASE IN POINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 6

A CASE IN POINT.

For obvious reasons I cannot append, hit name to this letter, yet I should wish very much to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professors Anderson and Fitt for all that they have done to secure safeguards for injustice or mistake in the working of the Mental Defectives Bill. I can prove its clamant need by the case of a so-called "retardate" child in my own family. I refused to obey the orders I received to send this child to the school for subnormal children, having behind me my solicitor and influential friends. The child's school had been well considered as to suitability and he was not removed to Other environment, but from this same school passed on a free place into the Grammar School, where he remained for two years, leaving to attend a vocational school, where he wa* awarded a paid scholarship. Later he was offered a travelling scholarship, which he was unable to accept. He is interested in athletics and teaches in a night class, as well as continuing his vocational work. Letters, photographs, etc., bearing on the above facts I sent to Professor Anderson, and, as he wrote to me, if I had not fought hard against an injustice, "what would the consequences have been?" MOTHER.