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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1943, Page 5

St, Dunstan’s Institution for the Blind, still caring for the ex-Service men blinded in the last war, is now training blinded Service women as well as men for work that will make them independent, an English exchange states. Beginning by learning to read braille and to use a typewriter, they are put on to other work that enables the teachers soon to spot whether the pupil is mechanically minded. If so he is invited to take up munition work, getting at St. Dunstan’s a certain amount of preliminary training on the type of machine he is likely to use. The men are Relighted to be able to take their share again in war work, and virtually all of those in'the factories are getting the standard rate of wage. Several of the men come from the Libyan campaign, others are naval men who served in the East, and some of these have shown such efficiency that the Admiralty is retaining their services.