JUBILEE INSTITUTE FOR BUND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 14

JUBILEE INSTITUTE FOR BUND

VISITED BY LORD BLEDISLOE. (P«b United Press Association.) AUCKL AND, May 9. An intimation that he intended to continue the interest taken by his viceregal predecessors in the Jubilee Institute for the Blind was given by the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) during his first visit to the institution today. In company with Lady Bledisloe he made a thorough inspection of every department, watching the adult inmates at work and the children at their school work. His Excellency talked for some time with a number of the blind ex-soldiers and with a man who lived 22 years ago near his Gloucestershire estate. The residential quarters were then inspected, after which a visit was paid to the schoolroom, where the children were learning Braille, typewriting and arithmetic. “ There is probably no institution for the blind in the British Empire that is more admirably administered and where the inmates are more -comfortably attended to than here,” said his Excellency, “ Not only shall we enjoy from time to time purchasing your handiwork, but we will also do-our best to induce others to do the same.” Speaking of the work carried on in the institute, Lord Bledisloe said he was verv pleased and interested to hear from the lips of one of the blind men that his life had been made infinitely happier since he had begun to read Braille. That was readily believed, for the reading of good literature opened up new avenues of thought. Nor was the best hook that had ever been written to be forgotten, for, after all, man’s religion was the foundation of his life.