Cash-strapped deaf school axes jobs
Twenty-three of the 39 residential care staff at van Asch College were made redundant yesterday as a result of Government funding cuts last year.
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The Press
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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1993-007
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The Press, 15 April 1993, p.1
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1998
publication – Taonga source: National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
NFD Communicate: Summer 1998
