CARE OF THE BLIND.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20731, 16 December 1932, Page 13

CARE OF THE BLIND.

SIR ARTHUR PEARSON FUND

The Christchurch committee of the Sir Arthur Pearson Fund for ther Blind met yesterday afternoon, Mr H, -Holland, M.P., presiding. Mr Clutha N.,Mackenzie, Director of the Jubilee Institute for tlie Blind, Auckland, wrote detailing the arrangements made for the return of =sir Carlo Bartoiomeo Guabeilo, of Christchurch, to Genoa, Italy. He is w leave Wellington to-day by t&e* Monowai for Sydney, where be joins an , Italian vessel. The secretary of tbe North Canterbury Hospital Board *~*r W. S- Wharton) forwarded £6, a grant from the Board for pocket money during the passage. It was reported that the Christchurch committee had equipped him with the necessary clothing--- - Several letters from blind peopk' were received thanking the. committee for grants for clothing and other necessities. A grant was made to a woman who has been nursing her blind, brother for fourteen years to permit her to take a much needed holiday. Regarding the departure of a "lino man from the Jubilee Institute for the Blind,. Auckland, for his home i» Christchurch, Mr Mackenzie wrote r—"He has mad© good use of his stay here, and has learned to type. He is taking back with him a typewriter which, has been given to him as a grant from the Pearson Fund at the cost of £lO. He has also learned «» use of Braille playing cards, and the draughts board. He-appears-to have thoroughly enjoved himself: and J.think that his visil has done liis^-aww.