WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND
N.Z. To Send Two Delegates , (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 6. Australia would be represented by ' one delegate, and New Zealand by < two delegates, at the General As- ’ sembly of the World Council for the 1 Welfare of the Blind in Paris next month, it was announced today. The council’s general secretary, Mr Eric Boulter—himself blind—said that the Australian delegate was Dr. Charles Bennett, of Melbourne, president of the Australian National Council for the Blind. Dr. Bennett would be chairman of a committee discussing economic security for the sightless. Mr Boulter said New Zealand’s delegates would be Sir Clutha Mackenzie, who was blinded in World War I and is now chairman of the World Braille Council, and Mr Edward Walton Christiansen, of the Institute for the Blind in Auckland. He said that the Australian and New Zealand delegates were among more than 100 representatives of 32 coun- : tries attending both the general as- : sembly, to be held from August 5 to 13 and a companion meeting—the in- : ternational conference on Braille music . from July 22 to 30.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 11
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183WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 11
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