BLIND INSTITUTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 7

BLIND INSTITUTE

appreciation OF WAIRARAPA’S RESPONSE. RECENT APPEAL AND SALE .OF GOODS. “May I be permitted through your columns to express on behalf of the chairman and Board of Trustees of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, their very warmest appreciation and thanks for the exceedingly generous support that has been accorded the Institute by the people of the Wairarapa district,” states Mr. G. F. C. Ashdowne, official representative of the Institute. "May I especially thank the ladies of the Women’s National Welfare League for the splendid way in which they have, for successive years, conducted the sale of basket work at the Masterton Show and for the excellent figure recorded this year in their total, which exceeded £B5.

"Thanks are also due to the Wairarapa Stock Auctioneers’ Association for their co-operation in the series of appeals which are made annually through the stock sales at this time of year, and which on this occasion has resulted in a sum of £lOO being contributed by members of the farming community. “The help of the Masterton Rotary Club, various Women’s Institutes, branches of the W.D. of the F.U., and many volunteers has been of material assistance in the work of caring for and training of the 1200 sightless people in the Dominion.”

In a letter also expressing the Institute’s thanks, the secretary, Mr. J. E. Broadfoot, stating that the sales had reached a record figure, points out that the result is of the “utmost value in keeping many of our men and women workers wage earners, ( self-supporting and happy. We deeply appreciate all that our good friends are doing for us.”