SIR ARTHUR PEARSON FUND.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18430, 10 July 1925, Page 10

SIR ARTHUR PEARSON FUND.

CHRISTCHURCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. i * - The Advisory Committee of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind was held in the-Municipal , Chambers yesterday afternoon. PreI sent—Messrs H. Holland (chairman), H. R. Smith and \Y. P. Woods (seu'reta'ry). A lengthy letter was received from Mr 1). G. Sullivan, M.P., giving the results of his enquiries into two cases. hi one case, Mr Sullivan stated, lie was making an application to the Government for a pension fcr tho person affected; in the other case, he lecoiumended that tho committee might bear tho cost of repairs to typewriter; also, that application should he made to the Tramway Board for free passes for blind persons, as those suffering from, this infliction had # to have someone t> accompany them., and it meant that when they used'tho trams they had to pay two fares. Mr Sullivan suggested' that a deputation lrom the committee should wait on the Tramway Board and urge that free passes he granted. It was decided to hear tho cost of tho repairs to theitypewriter, as recommended; and, in vteiv of the smallness of the attendance, to hold over tho suggestion regarding applying for free passes on the trams. Tho chairman read a report he had forwarded to the executive in Auck- 1 land dealing, with the cases that had come before the committee. In one, ease,, that of an elderly woman, the executive had been recommended to make a grant of about £lO to pay off

debts that were worrying ncr; ajjv another case the executive hadfe! recommended to make an adTJUKK* £3OO to a man to engage in Wife would enable- him to mate Ins ij» living, there being sufficient Mcarittjl justify tho advance being madcap Tlie report was received. |- s In the case of a man, 73 yean,* resides on the West Coast, it VM|k eided to recommend the grant hi in -Is a week. y,/ Mr Cliitlia Mackenzie, director .ari organiser of the tund, wrote at iS length on matters relating to theftfg He "stated that tho total cintribtS' amounted to £40,148, the coat tf3E' ing which was about £'7oo; t be rajE l with the £IO,OOO received as GoM 1 inent subsidy, bnd been invostaOfal total being £-10,27;!, which was Jfifii short of the fund's objective. ItSftl hoped to receive ihe £IOOO prosjMJ bv the Christelmnh Citv CounsJs|i 1922 . Messrs H. B. Williams aajrlj 1). Hunt intended seeing wbat tm be done in'the matter of raisins; fin* in Hawke's Ray and Poverty BaylS in the Wellington district. Mr K| kenzie added that there was a m sidc-rable area in Otago that contributed its quot.i_ to the fnal£gj The letter was received. •sj& Leave of absence was grantc&jlg' Andrew Fairbairn from tho cofflßjS during his visit to England. 11l