RADIO FOR THE BLIND
Captain lan Fraser., M.V.. chairman of St. Dunstan's, would, like to see every blind man in Cape Town own a ( radio set. Speaking'before- the Radio Society this week, ho made: an;*t>pWviof.~th'e blind, which was relayed by The\ broadcasting station in order that all radio listeners might participate in the scheme. Captain Fraser said that, as president of the. British Radio .Society, it had been his experience that every young radio listener grew discontented with his first set. As soon as he-was ..able to. buy a. better one be did so:, the result was that throughout the country one found old sets hidden on pantry shelves and in the bottom of wardrobes; "Now radio," said Captain Fraser, "is the blind man's newspaper. It is more: than that—for some blind men who have no one to.read, to them it is their onlv link with the world. "That'is why." bo explained, "I should like to see all those sets that a,re Iving on shelves put to the best of all possible uses-supplying inusic and news and lectures to the blind men of ('apetown.'',, -... v; ■' •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 10
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185RADIO FOR THE BLIND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 10
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