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For most of the week, the deaf in New Zealand are shut off from the television communication the rest of us take for granted. But for half an hour each Sunday, they can join the rest of the world, through a special programme called News Review.

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Taonga source:
NZ Listener
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1990-016
Bibliographic source:
NZ Listener, 25 June 1990, p.36-37
Author:
Paul Huggett
Copyright status:
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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