FAIR IN AID OF BLIND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 9

FAIR IN AID OF BLIND.

SUBSIDY DUE ON £210. ANOTHER £150 FROM SALES.

The fair at the Jubileo Institute for the Blind concluded in glorious weather on Saturday afternoon. The building and grounds were thronged with visitors, who, with guide sheets in hand, passed through school rooms, quarters, gymnasium and workshops, seeing new objects of interest in each. Alternately the deep-toned music of the pipe organ and the cheerful marches of tho Artillery Band floated across the sunlit grounds. Garden seats in shaded corners offered pleasant resting places, and the eagerness of the crowds at the ice cream ami strawberry and cream pavilions gave final proof that summer had arrived. The blind, too, busy at their benches demonstrating their fine tradosmanship, were full of sunshine and smiles, anxious to toil their guilts all they could of the way in which* ,these things could be managed without sight. j As a result of the fairj the general fund will benefit to the extent of about £210, this sum being eligible for a State sul»sidy of an equal amount. In addition, £150 worth of articles manufactured by the blind were sold, and many orders for future ■work were taken.

The following were the winners of various prizes:—Sweets, Miss E. Chipperfield ; cake, Mrs. W. Stewart; tnrkey, Mrs. Phillips.