CARING FOR CRIPPLES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28728, 28 October 1958, Page 14

CARING FOR CRIPPLES

“N.Z. Has Much To Offer World” (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 27. The rest of the world had nothing to offer New Zealand in the treatment of its physically handicapped, but New Zealand had much to offer the world, Mr D. V. Wilson, secretary-general of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, said today. “It is not a case of what you can get, but give,” he added. Mr Wilson, of New York, is visiting New Zealand briefly for the first time before going to Australia to attend the pan-Pacific rehabilitation conference for crippled children in Sydney. New Zealand’s ‘‘outstanding services” for the disabled were well known overseas and this week Mr Wilson said he planned to see as many of them as possible. A film on the treatment of cerebral palsy in New Zealand and a book on bringing up crippled children were of such excellent standard that they were being distributed throughout the world by his organisation, Mr Wilson said. In the under-developed countries the people themselves were making efforts to care for their crippled persons. ‘‘But they need guidance and help and that is where a country like New Zealand can be of great assistance,” he added.