"Talking Books" for Blind:
£35,000 Gift Presented London, Aug. 1.
The promised gift of £35,000 from Lord Nutield towards the provision of "talking-books" for the blind is announced.. The gift will be made in fourteen half-yearly instalments of £2,500.
In August, 1935, Lord Nuffield contributed £5,000 toward the cost of talking-books, which are iboing produced by the Sound-Recording Committee set up by the National Institute for the Blind and St. Dunstans.
In the previous month, Lord Nuffield had sent £10,000 for the welfare of the blind to Sir Beach-croft Towse, V.C., Chairman of the National Institute for the Blind.—
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