GUIDE-DOG EXPERT
Visit To N.Z. “The Preu" Special Sorrteo AUCKLAND, Dec. 21. A man who provides "eyes" for blind persons has been visiting Auckland. He to Mr J. K. Holdsworth, director of the National Guida Dog Training Centre at Kew, Melbourne, who has been visiting the owners of guide dogs. He has been making sura that all is well with the five guide dogs and their handlers who live in Auckland. It to part of the service given by the centre. The centre trains about 35 dogs each year, each dog taking about four or five months to train. Another month to needed to train the handler. Mr Holdsworth has been awarded an Australian Churchill fellowship to travel overseas and visit major training centres throughout the world.
He hopes that hto visit overseas will enable the Australian centre to be brought into line with modem overseas practices and make it one of the best centres in the world. He will visit Israel, Gen many, Holland, Britain, and the United States.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 12
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