SOCIAL CLUB FOR BLIND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24732, 8 October 1941, Page 2

SOCIAL CLUB FOR BLIND

The speaker for the evening at the quarterly gathering of the Social Club for the Blind of Otago and Southland was Miss V. Jacobs, who 'told of her experiences in London recently during the " blitz.” Mr J. N. Beckett presided over an attendance of members and friends. Miss Jacobs re-created the scene with vivid word pictures, dwelling especially on the district of Kensington, where she had stayed. On one occasion, she said, a bomb buried itself under the town hall in Kensington High street. She appeared on the scene with other members of the staff on the following day, to be moved back to the north of the building. When inquiries were made for the bomb the answer came: "It is doing nicely, but has not been located yet.” She and her companions were moved further back, only to find finally that they had been moved to a place above the quiescent bomb. This story was typical of many told by Miss Jacobs, who succeeded in impressing her audience with a sense of the ordinary Londoner's morale.