TRUE PHILANTHROPY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1931, Page 13

TRUE PHILANTHROPY

A FINE NEW ZEALANDER

Miss Eosina Aulsebrook (formerly of Christehurch, a daughter of the late Mr. John Aulsebrook, founder of tho. well-known biscuit firm) has come to England on a visit from South Africa. For some years she has been teaching physically handicapped children, and has come to Europe on "study leave" from the Transvaal Education Department, states "The Post's" London representative. She is accompanied by a little crippled girl, named Elizabeth Playford, whom she has adopted, and who is to remain in England to train as a teacher of the physically, handicapped. Elizabeth is described as a remarkable child, eleven years of age. During her travels Miss Aulsebrook .will investigate the use of celluloid limb supports to replace the heavy iron ones. If these prove suited to the South African climatic conditions she will undertake a course in their making. Miss Aulsebrook. is known to be. a great believer in the individual system, and her sehool-r-the Hope Home School- at- Johannesburg—is run on Dalton lines. Her main object, is to train the pupils so. that they may become assets to the community instead of liabilities to the State. She has found many of the physically handicapped children mentally more alert than their more, fortunate brothers and sisters. -, They arc-also very dexterous in all types of. handiwork. ; A South African Commission which investigated the matter of. the physically defective child drew attention to the fact that there were-19,000 sub-normal children requiring special education—children, who were wasting their time; in ordinary schools at present. The hope has been officially.' expressed in South Africa that Miss Aulsebrook will be of great assistance when once the Government takes State-wide control with regard to handicapped children—the time, apparently, is not far distant for. such action.- . . ■■■'''