SAFETY FOR BLIND PEOPLE.
Sir, —I have just received a letter from my brother Arthur Lawis, Bradford, Eng. land, saying that in October, 1920, it occurred to him that if blind, or totally deaf people carried white walking <sticks they would receive special consideration from motorists, police and the general publie when wishing to cross a road etc Anyone, with a few minutes thought. - can call to mind .many instances where a blind man with a white walking stick would receive preferential treatment and be able to cross a road in safety ' by holding out his white stick. My brother introduced this idea to the Bradford IVy.'tl Institution for the Blind, October, 1330, and it has been adopted and found most useful. The scheme has been copied by Paris, London Middlesbrough. Huddersfield and other towns, and the Royal Automobile dab has called the attention of all motorists to this scheme, for them to use special caution when seeing a person with a white stick. I commend this scheme for the consideration of all blind people and blind institutes. Walter Lawis. Castor Bay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21067, 29 December 1931, Page 10
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