Presented to a meeting of the Christchurch Committee of the Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind was a 17-page balance sheet, dealing with the handling of the committee’s Lord Nuffield Trust Fund accounts for the year. The document was an itemised list of all the transactions in the account, and it drew the admiration of the chairman (Mr H. Holland) and others who saw it, because it was the unaided work of the blind secretary to the committee (Mr T. W. Woods). On most of the typed pages appeared column after column of figures, and in the whole 17 pages there was not a single letter or figure out of place, nor any sign of a correction. The preparation of such a balance sheet would have been a long and arduous job for a typist with all the faculties, and for a blind man it represented remarkable accuracy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1938, Page 8
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