AIM FOR MAIMED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 7

AIM FOR MAIMED

Press AssoeiatiOn.)

Assistance for Road Mishap Victims SCOPE FOR EXTENSiOW

(By releeraoh—

AUCKLAND, Last Night. That the organisations now engaged in assisting war-disabled soldiel's might, in fntcre. serve a permapeut use to the community at large " by extending their services to persons ctippled and disabled in road accidents and other mishaps, was a euggestion ptit forward by Mr H. W . Guy, orgahising secretary of the Disabled_ Soldiers' and Sailors' Mutual Association, London, while addressing the Auckland Rotary Club. ' 'In England to-day, some 5000 pfcrsons are maimed daily on the roads,'' said Mr Ouy. "The numbersf injured are proporfcionately lower in New Zealand, but the faet remains that pecqile are always being injnred in aocidents and a percentage of them reanadn permanently djsabled. It is the hope that such organisations as that which it represenJ; will do for such person® what has bem done fo? disabled soldiers," he said. "The Work done by such people gjives them spirit and some joy in Tiving. Moreover, they are happy in tliought that they are not aitogel a burden on the State. They ean i..;s employed in some way, as we have proved on our estate, where only ,inen less than 70 per cent. disabled, "live in v SO bungalowsf keep their own garden® and work in a yast "printing worksliop. They have beeome an economic and self-supportihg cofflmunity." There were 40 organisations akin to the Mutual Association in England, said Mr Guy. Together with iKdee operating in New Zealand and in other parts of the Empire, they were alleviating ihe distress thrast updn Briii^h soldiers whose future was bltiwn, to atoms in a split-seoond during the war. Mr Guy said he hoped that wMe he was in New Zealand he nnght spread ideas that eould be adaptedfto this country's neods, as he felt the^assistanc© of disabled person® was^a^Bational, concern.