HEROIC BLIND

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1925, Page 7

HEROIC BLIND

SOME ASTONISHING INSTANCES. In an article in the “Herald” on the remarkable manner in which blind people overcome their handicap, Mr Clutha Mackenzie says: “I could take you to the fai'm of a man who lost his sight in a. blasting accident three years ago. He bought the farm last year, the place having been greatly neglected for some years. He has refenced it with fences »as straight and taut as anyone could wish, regrassed several paddocks, trimmed straggling hedgerows, cut scrub and blackberry, and rooted out a pre-historic ■orchard. And, of course has carried through the daily routine of the dairy farmer, all with the assistance of one boy employee. 1 have visited his milking shed, smoothly concreted by himself. He goes to it alone, sends his dog for the cows, 22 in number at the height of tho season, milks them, separates and cleans up, without any sighted persons giving him the slightest help. He is tall and muscular, he has knowledge. courage and hope. To him the woild has lost none of its glory; he sees none of the black pall walling him I,h • • ■ f ca n tell, of many others —of poultry farmers who alone and unassisted, have maintained themselves for years; of dairy farmers with fani”JPS of small children t:> support, who have no'-er admitted defeat;'and there is an old man, of nearly 70 living alone m the country, who, growing his own w! lows makes his living by his basty. 1 ‘ oi or Wl ■' e nr) hd v *°r ti pension. He will maintain his independence as J™" IV- C '/i'k * IS S ' ly? ’ 371 ile h 3s ihis tor 45 yeftrs’