HELPING THE BLIND

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 6

HELPING THE BLIND

Wellington Braille Club The Wellington Braille Club, which functions under the auspices of the Red Cross Society, held its annual meeting recently, when Mrs. Israel Was re-eleeted president. Mrs. E. H. Green; was elected treasurer. Mrs. Boyd and Miss Rili 'an Stavefen again offered to organize the annual bridge drive. Club activities had continued steadily and quietly, stated the annual report. Classes were continued with great enthusiasm, the students, sighted and blind, being taught individually. Nine students gained their Braille certificates. Two of these were taught by correspondence and two were blind. A record number of volumes, 117, making 32 complete books, were transcribed and sent as gifts to the library of the N.Z. Institute for the Blind. The volumes were shellacked and sewn hy a circle of members who met regularly twice a month. As usual, the zpiembers bore the cost of the paper for their transcriptions. One of the club’s most important sections. the Blind Post Rangers’ Budget, wns successfully issued regularly by Miss Moginie and her assistants. Blind members were particularly useful in this work.