Publicity urged
The Department of Social Welfare must up-date its information services so that disabled people know what assistance they are entitled to, said the national director of the Society for the Intellectually Handicapped (Mr J. B. Munro) in Christchurch on Saturday. Mr Munro, who as member of Parliament for Invercargill was one of those responsible for placing the Disabled Persons’ Community Welfare Act before parliament in 1974, told a disabled people’s seminar in Christchurch that too little information was available on which disabled people could act. “The vote tor Social Welfare must be increased so that all disabled people can be told what is available to them,” he said. “At present the information is fragmented.” Mr Munro suggested that the yellow pages of telephone directories would be a good place to publicise what was available to disabled people.
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