CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE
AFTERNOON RECEPTION. Members of the Catholic Women's League assembled on Wednesday to meet Mrs. Gervaso Hurd-Wood, the honorary organiser for the> proposed New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing. Mrs. E. J. Prendergast and Mrs. F. Pilling received ill's. Hurd-Wood, in the unavoidable absence of tho president, Mrs. O'Brien. Musical items given by Miss Winifred Cooke and Miss Higham were much apciated. In her speech, Mrs. Hurd-Wood stressed the interest always taken by the Catholic women of Auckland in all branches of welfare work, and gave a brief outline of the work to be covered by the proposed league. Various instances were quoted of tho results achieved by lip-reading, arid of the beneficial effects of recreation on those who are to a great extent isolated from thoir fellow-men by deafness. The chief aim of the proposed league is (o make people take their place in tho world, just as if they had their full hearing. Mrs. Hurd-Wood brought before her audience the necessity for helping the deaf to remain, or become, selfsupporting citizens, by assisting them to overcome tho handicaps of deafness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21129, 11 March 1932, Page 3
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186CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21129, 11 March 1932, Page 3
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