Administrative record - Text, Sydney Industrial Blind Institution: Fifty-Fifth Report 1935, 1936

Historical information

Articles in the annual report include: the provision of braille and Moon books to lepers, an address by Arthur McCredie, the awarding of an MBE to Henry Hedger (past superintendent), resignation of Herbert Tranter, a grant received from the NSW State Government to build additional storage, new floor added in Basket shop and paddock has now been fenced in, a ceremony on the Roof Garden where workers presented Robert McDonald a sea-grass chair to thank him for reading to them during their lunch hour for the past 25 years, a brief history of the library, the importation of the first Talkie Books from AFB, photograph and outline of the work undertaken by Roy Kippax and Ethel Campbell, the progress of pupils by music teacher Gordon Lavers, Annual Picnic and Sports Day, the suggestion to the government that blind children should be compulsorily educated just as sighted children are required to be under law, and the decline of some activities by various branches of the Women's Auxiliary.

Physical description

1 printed booklet with illustrations in bound

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