INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 26, 8 November 1901, Page 4

INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.

Some rather extraordinary facts were elicited in an inquiry with respect to the management'of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Outside of the actual charge preferred against Mr Tighe, the principal, of assulting an inmate named Clarke. It has transpired that Tighe, who is a. blind man himself is the owner of several'racehorses and sporting dogs. Fie is a frequent attendant at race meetings, and I am told he'can identify not only his own horse, but > ther h rses as they gallop past tiiw stand by the beat of their hoofs. This seems rather a strain on one’s belief, but Tighe is undoubtedly remarkably clever. To see him going through town a stranger would never suspect he was completely blind, and he moves about the Blind Institute as if he were fully possessed of the best eyesight. In the course of the investigation, Tighe, in explanation of a statement made b\' Mr Caleb Wood one of the trustees, said he received for maintaining the inmates some £450 a year, making with his salary, a total of £590. He made this explanation, as he thought his salary was insufficient and he did not want it to go forth to the world that he was receiving £4OO or £SOO a year for himself. He is, it appears, allowed so much per. head for food allowance.