A DESERVING INSTITUTION'

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 514, 25 June 1897, Page 4

A DESERVING INSTITUTION'

A Pahiatua Resident Concerned.

The seventh annual roport of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind came to hand this morning, from which we reprint the following extract from tlio report of the Principal (Mr J. W. Tighe). Tho extract is under the heading “ Industrial Department ” :

“ Glancing back to the day wo first opened tho workshop, and now mentally surveying the pupils who are still with me, what a great change has been wrought ! They are no longer boys, though short tho time may seem, but industrious young men, anxiously awaiting the time when they will be able to work for themselves. When I remember that but a short time back the majority of them could not lace their own boots, and have so far progressed as to be able—in one department—to turn out 35,000 strawberry boxes in a little over two months, there is at least tho satisfaction of knowing that my efforts as a teacher have not been in vain. I cannot get pupils to remain after they are thoroughly trained, yet where they to do so it would lie to the benefit of all. This may appear plain when I say that during the year we have not been able to supply all tho orders we could have obtained. Tools and machinery in connection with the department are in good order, and we aro looking forward to a good year’s work. As most of the ex--1 uuils are now established in business and known in their respective districts, I will only refer to the two who have recently left. William Pi arcy is now established in business at Pahiatua, and, through the medium of this report, I ask friends in his or the Hawke’s Bay district, who have in the past boon kind, enough to send us orders for goods, to forward future orders for goods to him, wlion they will bo well and promptly executed. Wiremu Porou, a Maori, is living at Gisborne, and arrangements aro being made to supply goods, such as he is able to mako, to that district.