APPEAL FOR WAR BLIND
AUCKLAND, October 6. At the request of Sir lan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen, Sir Clutha Mackenzie, who has been spending a holiday in India, is extending his stay for several months. A few days after the outbreak of war he received a cablegram from Sir lan stating that the British Government had delegated to St. Dunstan’s a similar task to that for which it was founded in the Great War. The cablegram asked Sir Clutha to conduct an appeal throughout India on behalf of the new work undertaken by St. Dunstan’s and he consented.
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Southland Times, Issue 23942, 7 October 1939, Page 7
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106APPEAL FOR WAR BLIND Southland Times, Issue 23942, 7 October 1939, Page 7
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