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Mrs S. J. Bardswell, Kahutia St., has only one sixteenth sight in one eye, virtually totally blind, yet has no difficulty in running her household, for herself and her totally blind husband. An accomplished typist, Mrs Bardswell corresponds regularly with friends and relatives. She spends many hours at the typewriter, finds no difficulty in typing, despite the fact that she is unable to see either the keys, or the finished type, Typing is one of many occupations taught newly blind folks by the Foundation for the Blind, it being easier for a blind person to type than use normal long-hand methods.

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Mr Bardswell, totally blind, is an accomplished musician, spends many hours entertaining friends on accordion and harmonica.

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Mrs Bardswell is here seen operating a braille typing machine, which punches raised combinations of dots comprising the braille alphabet. There have been many systems of type to enable the blind to read by touch, but that devised by Louis Braille has achieved universal acceptance.

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A sheet of braille type. This reads in the normal manner, from left to right and from top to bottom. This sheet, typed by Mrs Bardswell, shows the alphabet and numbers in the first four lines, the last three reading "Ross Stafford Gisborne".

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Tom is an accomplished pianist

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Reports to the Foundation head office in Auckland are recorded on this portable machine, the tape forwarded to Auckland, where report is typed.

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A keen amatuer transmitter, Tom sets up a compact transceiver in his hotel bedroom.

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The aerial clamps easily on to window ledge.

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Tom crosses Gisborne's busiest intersection without difficulty