BLINDED SOLDIER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 3

BLINDED SOLDIER

MUST OF PKI SIM WAR TRAINING IN INSTITUTE j Auckland, Sept. 21 . Believed t*» be the only New Zealand ! soldit i so far invalided home blinded jin the present war. Mr C\ 11. Humph-I |ru .. of Carterton, is now in the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, which! I he entered some weeks ago. j Mr Humphries, who is single, was | formerly employed in the freezing! | works at Wamgawa, near Maslerton. i He left New Zealand with the first echelon. The injury which caused his j blindness was not due to enemy action.! but to an explosion in a parcel of I detonators as he was lifting it from a truck in August of last year. After) hospital treatment lie was sent homo I with a draft which arrived in February. Since his return. Mr Humphries has been assisted by the trustees of the Blind Soldiers’ Fund, who still hold about L‘ll,ooo of moneys subscribed during the Inst war. He has already made good progress at Bailie, type- j writing and basketmnking as a preliminary to making a fresh start in ; some new occupation. His cheerfulness and self-reliance have impressed both his fellow-workers and stall' of the in- j slitute. -L\A