CARE OF WAR BLIND
AN APPEAL IN INDIA SIR C. MACKENZIE'S TASK At the request of Sir lan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen, Sir Clutha Mackenzie, who has been spending a holiday in India with his sister, Mrs. A. V. Macdonald, is extending his stay there for several months. A few days after the outbreak of war he received a cable from Sir lan, stating that the British Government had delegated to St. Dunstan's a similar task to that for which it was founded in the Great War, namely r .the hospital treatment, training and aftercare of men losing their sight in fcftp present war. ' '' ' ' ■ _ The cablegram asked Sir Clutha Mackenzie to conduct an appeal throughout India on "behalf of the new work undertaken by St. Dunstan's. He consented and it is expected that he will " not return to Xcav Zealand "until February
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23471, 7 October 1939, Page 12
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