BLIND SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 5

BLIND SOLDIERS.

BIG REUNION AHEAD.

SPIRIT OF ST. DUNSTAN'S

Determination to carry on the flag and spirit of St. Dunstan's by holding the reunion of blinded soldiers arranged f»r April 24-26 of next year, and to entertain Mr lan Eraser and representatives of blinded soldiers in other Empire Dominions was decided upon at a meeting of St. Dunstan's New Zealand Blinded soldiers Association. Mr. D. McPhee presided and welcomed a number erf visitor* who included Messrs. T. Muir, H. Aekins! president and secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Club, Mr. W. Prentice 3s trustee of C.T. Blinded Soldiers' Fund', Mr. J. K Broadfoot, acting-director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind,.and the president of the War Amputees' Association, Mr. T. C. Brown. the course of discussion on next year s reunion it was mentioned that representatives were expected from AusCanada, though the war would probably preclude the representation of ijn<rland and Africa. Members stated their conviction that training for some P^°\,^ a I J he seoret of real tapping ur J'j man * the hope that newly blinded men as the result of the ■present war would take advantage of St. disabifity 8 lmng lor alleviation of their ♦A"w° nS A t0 t to ? st by the company to the War Amputees' Association. Mr. T. in'wT"; fu fi- °, f the community of interest of the blinded and limbless men, ancl hopes for their amicable co-operation. Ihe whole company joined heartily in tributes and expressions of thanks' to the Commercial Travellers' Club and its Blinded Soldiers' Fund, and to the Xew Zealand Institute for the Blind for assistance which had enabled afflicted men to go forward with renewed hope.