COUNCIL’S HELP APPRECIATED

Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 5

COUNCIL’S HELP APPRECIATED

WORK OF DISABLED MEN Gifts of a garden basket for the reserves department and a waste paper basket for the town clerk’s office have been received by the City Council from the Invercargill committee of the Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establishment League. In a letter accompanying the gifts the committee thanked the council for agreeing to lease to the committee at a low rental an area of land of 10 acres at Seaward Bush for growing willows for use in certain • handicrafts at the league’s training centre. ' The letter stated that the committee fully appreciated the fact that the councillors took into consideration the aims and objects of the league when deciding the lease. The committee had since been in touch with the officer-in-charge of the city’s reserves, Mr W. Stapleton, over planting out the area and had received from him every courtesy as well as invaluable advice on willow growing. In extending the season’s greetings to the Mayor and city councillors on behalf of the blind people of the city, Mr J. F. Egan, representative of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, in a letter thanked the council for the generous consideration extended by it to all blind persons during the year. “We thank you for the privilege extended to us to travel on the trams, we thank you for the generous gifts given to each blind person during the Christmas season of 1943 and for the kind thought that prompted you to think of us in such a way,” the letter added. The Mayor, Mr A. Wachner, said that Christmas gifts were again being sent to blind people this year. .