BLIND INSTITUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1930, Page 2

BLIND INSTITUTE

VISITED BY GOVERNOR-

GENERAL

AUCKLAND, May 9

An intimation that he intended to continue the interest taken by his vice-regal predecessors in the Jubilee Institute for the Blind was given by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, during his first visit to the institution to-dav. In company with Lady Bledisloe he made a thorough inspection of every department, watching the adult inmates at work. His Excellency talked for some time with a number of blind ex-soldiers, and a man who lived twenty-two years ago near bis Gloucestershire estate. Tlie residential quarters were then inspected, after which a visit was paid to the s,Toolroom, where the children were learning Braille typewriting and arithmetic. “There is probably no other institution for the blind in the British Empire that is more admirably administered and where the inmates are more comfortably attended to then here,” said his Excellency. “Not only shall we enjoy from time to time purchasing your handiwork, but we will also do pur best to induce other’s' to do the same.” Speaking of the work carried on in the institute Lord Bledisloe said he was very pleased'and interested to hear' from the lips of one of the blind meri' that' his life had heen 'nia'de infinitely happier since Jie had begun to read Braille. That was readily believed, ‘for 'the'reading of good 'literature opened up new avenues of thought. Nor was the best' book that had ever been written To Re forgotton, for after an ; main’s religidn 1 was the foundation of •ms life. 1 "' ,MM m ' ‘ -