TO HELP THE BLIND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5055, 22 November 1926, Page 2

TO HELP THE BLIND.

MUSIC AND LITEBATUItE.

APPEAL TO SCHOOL CHILDREN.

For the purpose of enabling the Jubilee Blind Institute of Auckland to have completed the three manual organ presented some years .ago by Sir Henry Brett, an appeal by letter is being made to school committees throughout New Zealand by Mr F. Norris, of Masterton, who suggests that school pupils be asked to contribute Id each, or, if preferred, to organise concerts in .the respective school districts.

“The organ is lacking in several stops,” says the letter, /’,and the blind organist, the Rev. E. Chitty, who is a keen and clever musician, is anxious to get it completed on account of the pleasure the inmates derive from the music and also that he may be better able to train his four blind students to become professional organists. The cost will be. about £2OO. Should the response to this appeal exceed the amount required, the balance will be spent in buying more books for the blind in the nevn braille. There are now 70 students at the institute, and as they find their greatest pleasure in music and reading it would be nice to show .them at this season of the year that they are not forgotten by contributing something to help them in these directions.”

In order that every ( penny given by the children may be used for the purposes. outlined, the cost of making the appeal is being defrayed by Mr Norris,