CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

An account of the work done for the blind at Ovingdean, the newlyestablished headquarters of St. Dunstans in England, was given by Mr W. T. Woods at a social held yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind. Mr Woods said that among the trainees were eight returned men who had suffered the handicap of losing both arms in addition to their sight. These men were using specially adapted typewriters and were being trained to weave on looms. Every conceivable thing had been thought, of at Ovingdean, even to the provision of a subway from the main gate under the main road so that the blind men could catch trams and buses going either way without the danger of having to cross a busy thoroughfare. During the afternoon musical and elocutionary items were presented by Miss C. Tamplin, Miss G. Jones, and Mrs M. Brown. Mrs Irving Sladen, who will leave shortly for England* was the guest of honour at a party hqld recently at the home of Mrs W. E. Turland. Mount Pleasant. Mrs S. A. Fogg provided musical items, and competitions were arranged by Mesdames H. Edgar, R. N. Hodder, and Cropp. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of reading matter for patients in the Cashmere Sanatorium.