WORK FOR THE BLIND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 10

WORK FOR THE BLIND

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

In its broad principles the work for the blind in thp Dominion is thoroughly" modern, said Sir Clutha Mackenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, on his return after six months abroad. Some of the magnificent grounds and buildings overseas made him envious. In the Dominion there was need for n.ore buildings and a higher standard of comfort, and he hoped that the money would be forthcoming from the public, and the Gov-erntii~-it before long.

On his visits to institutions for the blind in Britain, Switzerland, and Italy, Sir Clutha found little that was new. so far as method was concerned. British workshops, he said, were finding difficulty in marketing goods in face of the competition from machinemade goods and <*oods made by sweated labour overseas. To keep the blind people in full employment was esential to their happiness and health, and.he hoped that the New Zealand public would buy goods made by the blind in the Dominion.