SHELTERED WORKSHOP

Press, Volume C, Issue 29444, 21 February 1961, Page 17

SHELTERED WORKSHOP

Round Table

To Help

The Christchurch North Round Table has undertaken to provide the labour and materials for conversion of the house bought by the Crippled Children Society at 258 Antigua street The house is to be used by the Sheltered Workshop Association aa a training centre for th* physically handicapped. Round Table members hope to start the alterations next week-end. They will begin as soon as a permit is received from the city council.

The main work to be done is the removal of partitions to open up the rooms into two workshops, one each for boys and girls. Various storage places will also be created nent to the workshops, and the kitchen and toilet facilities will be converted to the needs of the association. The front room will became a store and office. A small outbuilding will be replaced. The drive-in in front of the Crippled Children Society's headquarters next door will be extended across the front of No. 258, so that cam and taxis will be able to bring handicapped persons right to the front doer of the house. This part of the conversion is to be arranged by the society. The backgarden will be used as such by the Sheltered Workshope Association to provide part of its training for the handicapped.