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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 4th April 1963. "Last night, the Lions Club of Palmerston North had the mammoth task of sorting and packing thousands of pairs of spectacles. They will be dispatched to India where they will be graded and issued out by eye clinics to the needy."

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
April 4, 1963
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_017615
Format
B&W negative

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charity,
donations,
india,
lions club of palmerston north,
spectacles,
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