OUR BLIND VISITORS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 19, 16 February 1909, Page 4

OUR BLIND VISITORS.

A TOIvEX OF GRATITI'DE. "'Gratitude is the least of virtues; ingratitude tlie worst of vices." About a month ago there deeended upon Xew Piymout a blind individual, lie was accompanied! i>.y bis wife, to whom lie had then been recently wed. They levied toll from all and .sundry, ami! im due course they called at the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's ulliev, and seemed somewhat nonplussed when they were confronted by the whole Hoard, which sat on thai eventful day. Aud the Inspector-Gen-eral of llo.spitali was there, 100, aud he told the blind people a little of his mind. Tlie upshot was that to rid the town of t'tieir presence, Mr. and Mrs. Why te .were given their steamer fares Lo Oneliunga. Taranaki must liave 'been a happy hunting ground, however, lor them, hi a very short while they returned.

Yesterday the Hospital Board had hefore it, formidable-looking blue-paper document which proved to be a declaration by Whyte {"his mark") to the effect that the secretary of the Board, Mr. M. Lcppev, had used offensive and obscene language to him at the olliee, in, the presence of Mrs. Whyte. The alleged words were given in the declaration, and the complaint was backed up by a letter from Mrs. Daisy Whyte. The chairman said that he had investigated tho complaint, and was convinced that it was a ''pack of lies." There was someone else at the bottom of the affair.

Mr. Geo. Browne said the complaint and the official-looking declaration had been brought under his notice by .Mr. John Mynott, who had asked him to take up the cudgels on behalf of the complainant. He referred Mr. Mynott to the chairman.

The secretary denied the allegations in toto, und Miss Crawford, who wa> present at the time, corroborated his statement ( that no offensive language was used.

The Hoard passed a resolution to the effect tliat after due enquiry it had found tile complaint unwarranted and the secretary, free 'from blame.