Souvenir Pin Badge: 16th World Games for the Deaf, Christchurch NZ
A white souvenir pin badge with red letters and the Game’s official logo, sold at the XVI World Deaf Games in Christchurch 1989.
- Deaf Sports
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Taonga source:
Margaret Coutts
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, 011-O-MC
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1989
article – Taonga source: Christchurch Star
World Games for the Deaf: Thursday 5 January 1989
A full page update from Christchurch Star on the World Games for the Deaf - Thursday 5 January. Be quick for souvenirs...No need for a whistle or gun; Close watch for drugs.
1988
article – Taonga source: The Evening Post
Wellington fields 16 at deaf Games
Sixteen Wellingtonians are part of the 97 strong New Zealand team to compete in the 16th World Games for the Deaf in Christchurch. Local members of the team and the sport they are competing in are listed.
NZSL Stories
1988
publication – Taonga source: National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
NFD Journal: July 1988 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
NZSL Stories
1989
Object – Taonga source: Margaret Coutts
Souvenir Pennant: 16th World Games for the Deaf, Christchurch 1989
1989
video – Taonga source: Rodney Roberts
News Review: Ready, Set, Go!
Susan Thomas takes the reins at the studio this week on ‘News Review’. The team recaps footage from the World Games of the Deaf which wrapped up on the Tuesday before. Watch records being broken, and some footage of our Kiwi athletes in action!
NZSL Stories
1989
Object – Taonga source: Margaret Coutts
Pocket Patch: New Zealand, 1989 XVI World Games for the Deaf, Christchurch
1989
article – Taonga source: The Press
Interpreters spent year on training
Nearly 90 Christchurch people have spent the last year training to be interpreters at the World Games for the Deaf, with about 50 deaf people teaching the volunteers their language.
NZSL Stories
1989
article – Taonga source: The Press
Clever new system for starting
The starting equipment to be used at the Queen Elizabeth II complex is far more sophisticated. It uses a traffic-light type devised by a Christchurch man, Mr Ted Gilliver.
1989
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
Team Photo: New Zealand Deaf Women’s Basketball Team, Bronze Medal Winners, 1989
NZSL Stories
1989
article – Taonga source: The Press
TVNZ taken to task
The chairman of the Hillary Commission, Sir Ronald Scott, has joined in the chorus of criticism over television coverage of the World Games for the Deaf. He said Television New Zealand was insensitive to the needs of the deaf when covering the Games.
1989
article – Taonga source: Christchurch Star
Ingenuity puts them in the picture
Problems for photographers come in many forms. A prize-winning Christchurch photographer, Dick Poole, had his special worries at the World Games for the Deaf on Saturday. He used several methods to get the look he wanted – a little help from an interpreter, a little push and pull and a few signs.