ESCORTS FOR BLIND
Volunteers In City Called A need for volunteers who with time at their disposal could escort blind citizens of Christchurch on shopping excursions was considered* at the recent monthly meeting of the Canterbury advisory committee of the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind. Mr G. F. C. Ashdowne, manager of the Christchurch branch, said there was a growing need for such a service, as there was for the voluntary drivers with cars on whom the occupational therapy department depended for the transportation of blind persons unable to travel by any other means. It was agreed that such services were worthy of all possible support and that an investigation into the practice of voluntary escorting at present being followed in Wellington should be : made with a view to the establishment of some form of auxiliary service to the local branch.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28889, 8 May 1959, Page 12
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142ESCORTS FOR BLIND Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28889, 8 May 1959, Page 12
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