THE INVALID BLIND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 11

THE INVALID BLIND.

A HOME WANTED. By providing a home for the invalid or aged blind, the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, at Auckland, could widen its scope to the advantage of the bliijd community, according to £he annual report of the Director of the Institute. At present, except in so far as its social side applied, that section could not receive much assistance from the Institute, as its primary function was to. provide training and employment for, the capable blind. _ln practice, more than .-naif; the .blind, community, through age or ill-health, could not bo benefit. • ... While many. were cared for in their own homes, there were a .large number living in uncongenial surroundings. some • entirely alone, and in straitened circumstances. Some had ample means, but could. not findquarters where th«v would be welcomed and. cared for.. _ • ' ' Another great need , for tho Institute was a swimming bittb. Many of the members* of the institute were keen swimmers, and it was' a form of exercise for the-blind. Sufficient gymnasium equifiinent was also' lackThe; library haa worked well during the " year' Much additional shelving had been built to accommodate .the increasing number of Braille and Moon works "Punch," now being published in Braille for the first tiwe. had been ordered. .."An ever-increasine . stock or Braille works' wire being kept- ro_tno three southern libraries Wellington rbristchurch, and Duneain. The Output of workshop poods had continued its steadv climb, of >the past seven v«»r« by an esr.efc'ally big steo from £9OOO to £11.688 The workshops ■ wore conducted on sound commercial linos - and the: equipment was \opc up-to-date.. ..