BLIND FOUNDATION DIRECTOR’S TRIP
To Make Survey On Mauritius
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 6. The director of the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, Mr E. W. Christiansen, of Auckland, will leave next month for Mauritius to make a survey of the educational and industrial aspects of welfare work for the blind on the island.
He is undertaking the assignment at the request of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, to which he will report later in London at the end of July. Mr Christiansen will be one of only four speakers at the world conference for the welfare of the blind in Rome. In asking Mr Christiansen to make the Mauritius survey, the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind said it regarded him as “the leading expert in the Southern Hemisphere.” On his way back to New Zealand, Mr Christiansen will have discussions with officials of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto and with American authorities in New York, Washington and San Francisco.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 7
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