THE INDIGENT BLIND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13335, 11 July 1907, Page 3

THE INDIGENT BLIND.

Ml! FLATMAN'S PLICA

Spoci"! —3iv Telegraph.

YVELLINGTON, July 10.

Mr Flat man.made a pica, to-dav for pro- , vision for t.lio maintenance of indigent i b!ii;<i anil .otli.T persons win) ate -siiHering i from afflictions which proveni them from I ■earning a livelihood without parading ulie stn-ets of 1 lie towns with instrumental ( music or other means for tlitt purpose of . obtaining a pucarious existence. ( The Kon. Mr Fowlcs remarksd that, in- I diger.t, blind received a maintenance allow- 1 ance from tl\e Charitable Aid Boards of < their respective districts, when such wa-s 1 applied for. It would be, perhaps, un- i wisa to interfere with the occupation of « those who preferred t-o maintain themselves by instrumental music, itc. It was quts--1 ti'onab'.e if the mover should do anything < to minimise the. spirit of independence and ; self-T£.liancci they showed. The Jubilee < Institute for thj Blind at, Auckland wa-'- « u.ssd for all blind persons in the colony, i and provided the inmate', with instruction ; in elementary knowledge, and tauglit tlir-m arts and handicrafts' with view of enab- 1 ling them to earn their Jivingr. Tbs-re 1 were at present fifty-two on the roll of 1 ths Institute, and forty-five of these were '<■ inmates. Tin Government did not pro- : pose to do mora ai present than subsidise ' th.3 Charitable Aid Board rates, which £ were available for the indigent blind, and to contribute' towards the maintenance of Government pupils-at'the above Institute. ( ■«—« a—am *