BLINDED SOLDIERS.
FUND OF £20,000 SUGGESTED. Press Association, WELLINGTON, August 12. A proposal that a fund of £20,000 be established for the future care of New "Zealand bonded soldiers was made to the' Advisory Board of the War Belief Societies by Mr Clutha Mackenzie this morning. So far, said Mr Mackenzie, blinded soldiers had been looked after very well, but they should look to the future, and draw up a definite plan. There were 25 blinded soldiers in New Zealand. Their future should be provided for. The best way would be to make a man happy, and keep him busy, by giving him plenty to do. Poultry farming was specially suitable for such a man. A blind man could not' make ,this pay, and he suggested, therefore, that a definite fund bo created, by which the earnings of these men should be subsidised, £ for £. Sixteen societies had approved of his scheme.
It was stated that the commercial :ravellers' fund for blinded soldiers ;otalfed £3365.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2026, 12 August 1920, Page 19 (Supplement)
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164BLINDED SOLDIERS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2026, 12 August 1920, Page 19 (Supplement)
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