The Auckland Deaf Society Netball team celebrates their 25th Jubilee in April, 2000.
The Auckland Deaf Netball Club runs a social event to celebrate its first anniversary in 1976.
A group of men from the ADS basketball club are seen chatting outside the Auckland Deaf Society Clubrooms.
The Australian and New Zealand Deaf men play basketball at the Trans-Tasman Games, held at Lincoln College, Canterbury in January 1979.
The New Zealand team attending the 10th World Deaf Games in Washington, USA, 1965.
Members of the Auckland Deaf Society and friends attend the annual picnic at Orewa Beach in March 1969.
The Birthday Carnival held annually at Western Springs were a lucrative way of raising money in the early fifties. The Auckland Deaf Society via the Friends of the Deaf were raising funds for a new hall building.
Students from the Titirangi School for the Deaf visit the construction site of the future Kelston School for the Deaf.
The popular basketball programme was hosted over two days at Cowles Stadium with footage coverage of the Manawatu and Christchurch ladies competing for the Otago Deaf Society Cup, which Manawatu won (19-15). The winner of the Cunliffe Memorial Cup (men’s) went to Christchurch, with the runner up Wellington (63-56).
The popular athletics interclub and open championship ran to a tight program, from 8:00am to 12:00 noon. The Oxspring Shield for interclub athletics went to Auckland with 32 points. The 32nd Annual NZ Games for the Deaf in Christchurch provided valuable experience for hosting the World Deaf Games to be held in Christchurch in January 1989. At Cowles Stadium, Shona McGhie and Tony Walton are also interviewed by News Review.