Headquarters of the Blind Institute.-The headquarters of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, in Parnell Road, Auckland, which comprise a fine set of modern red-brick buildings set in several acres of pleasant lawns, tree, and bright flower-beds, boarding school and workshop, residental quarters, gymuasium, music rooms, retail shops, and playgrounds, By an amendment to the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, passed on December 9, 1932, the change in the name of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind to that of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind has been authorised, Under the old name the institute gave 42 years' service to the blind peple of the Dominion, teaching them to read and write, play musical instruments, follow wage-earing occupations, and become orinary useful units in the community. An article on helping the blind appears in this issue.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 7
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138Headquarters of the Blind Institute.-The headquarters of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, in Parnell Road, Auckland, which comprise a fine set of modern red-brick buildings set in several acres of pleasant lawns, tree, and bright flower-beds, boarding school and workshop, residental quarters, gymuasium, music rooms, retail shops, and playgrounds, By an amendment to the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, passed on December 9, 1932, the change in the name of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind to that of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind has been authorised, Under the old name the institute gave 42 years' service to the blind peple of the Dominion, teaching them to read and write, play musical instruments, follow wage-earing occupations, and become orinary useful units in the community. An article on helping the blind appears in this issue. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 7
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