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Theresa Newson and Maria Griffiths are completely deaf. They are also students at St Catherine’s College, Kilbirnie. Their mothers looked at several schools in the Wellington region because they wanted their daughters to stay at home rather than go to Van Asch.

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Joanne Becker (Ward)
Joanne Becker (Ward)
Maria Griffiths
Maria Griffiths
Theresa Cooper (Nawson)
Theresa Cooper (Nawson)
Tina Coleman
Tina Coleman
Taonga source:
City Voice
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1994-006
Bibliographic source:
City Voice, 16 June 1994
Author:
Abigail Caspari
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