MONEY FOR THE BLIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 306, 17 March 1928, Page 32

MONEY FOR THE BLIND

PEARSON FUND TRANSFERRED At the final meeting of the Pearson Memorial Fund Committee, held this week, it was decided, on the motion of the Hon. George Fowlds, to dissolve the committee and hand over the outstanding money to the trustees of the Blind Institute. In presenting his final report, the chairman, Mr. Clutha McKenzie, said that following upon Sir Arthur Pearson’s death in 1921, the committee had been set up to raise a fund as a memorial to his great services to the blind, its practical purpose being to provide the Jubilee Institute for the Blind with a regular income to be applied to after care work among the blind community throughout the Dominion, much of the institute’s effort at that time being rendered unproductive owing to its inability to furnish the money required to start capable people in the occupations they had mastered. By March 31, 1927, the committee had handed to the trustees of the institute the sum of £41,060 9s lid. This year’s payments would total £615 18s lOd. In addition the Christchurch City Council had agreed to contribute two further instalments of £250 each during the next two years, bringing its total grant to £I,OOO. A State grant of £20,000 had been accepted, so that the total capital amount which the committee had been instrumental in securing for the institute for the purposes of the fund was £62,175 15s 9d. A matter for congratulation was that the total expenses of the committee had been only £6BO 10s sd, approximately one and a-half per cent, of the funds handled. Particular thanks were due to Mr. Norman Williams for the excellent manner in which he had .served the institution.