Speech for the deaf
The Minister of Broadcasting was getting in some last-minute swot on sign language, in preparation for a speech tonight to an audience made up mainly of deaf people.
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Taonga source:
The Evening Post
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1983-003
Bibliographic source:
The Evening Post, 24 June 1983, p.4
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