TO HELP THE BLIND.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 13

TO HELP THE BLIND.

Sale of Basketware on Showgrounds. If what has happened in recent years • at the Metropolitan Show at Addington can be taken as a guide, it is safe to predict that one of the most popular attractions to-morrow and on People's Day will be the tent of the Christchurch Rotary Club, in which will be on view for sale a great variety ot baskets and basketware made by the inmates of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland. Considered only as an exhibition of work, showing how the sightless have overcome some of their disabilities, it will well repay inspection, and those in search of articles of use of beautiful design and of excellent workmanship are sure to find in the great variety of goods displayed what they desire. As in past. years, the sale of the work of the inmates of the institute ' this year has been undertaken by the ! Christchurch Rotary Club, and the j club’s tent will be in its customaiv site, the second on the right from the Lincoln Road entrance to the Showgrounds. Rotarian C. E. Jones again ! will be in charge, and will be assisted i by a number of members of the club, j Visitors to the show in past years have ! so liberally supported the club in its ’ endeavours to help the blind that it is hardly necessary to bespeak a continu- ! ation of their interest, and their patron