WORK FOR THE BLIND
HELP FROM ST. DUNSTANS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland. January 1. Dlr. Clutha Mackenzie, director of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, who returned by the Maunganui to-day from a tour of Great Britain, attended the St. Dunstans Conference. It was noted at the conference that since the war a very large number of blind men had been enabled to resume their old occupations, aud many had found full-time eml>(oynient in new trades they had been taught. As a result of this training and of the work of the existing after-care organisations in the Dominions, together with Government war pcsions, it could be said that the blinded soldiers of the Empire remained active and useful members of the communitly, busy about their jobs and hobbies and with pleasant homes. The conferenco passed resolutions expressing tho appreciation of blinded soldiets for what had boon done and was being done for them by St. Dunstans, by the Dominion Governments, and the after-care organisations, particular mention being made in connection with New Zealand of the fine work of the Commercial Travellers’ Blinded Soldiers’ Fund. The conference urged the necessity for continued public support of organisations caring for blinded soldiers.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 6
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200WORK FOR THE BLIND Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 6
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