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Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 79

A man whose sight has been almost miraculously restored to him after 31 years is looking upon a new world that is stranger and more wonderful than he had ever imagined. He is Mr J. F. Fish, a well-to-do London business man, who, while on honeymoon in 1899, was struck by a falling tree, an injury blinding him by paralysing the optic nerves. For three decades specialists- were engaged in vain attempts to restore his eight, Mr Fish spending £lO,OOO in the .quest While sitting at home last month listening to his wife reading, vision suddenly returned to the left eye. It was veiled, but sufficiently strong to enable him to recognise objects. “A wonderful thing has happened, my dear! ” he exclaimed. “ I can see you again.” Mrs Fish was incredulous, but when her husband was able to identify objects in the room, she fainted with joy.