156:. The meeting achieved its aim and Mrs Blackall became the branch secretary and her husband was the group's patron. A month later the group had its own rooms and Ruby Blackall began her dedicated fund raising. The law at the time allowed only one organisation to raise money for the deaf which ended a power struggle in place between the people who raised money for the deaf and people who were deaf.
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