Ephpheta: June 1983 (Vol. 6, No. 2)

Some of the items featured in ‘Ephpheta: June 1983 (Vol. 6, No. 2)’:

• The first Disabled Persons National Conference 1983 in Hamilton. A group of deaf people, parents and friends were present at this Assembly. Eddie Wright and Diana Koat acted as interpreters. Lillian Walton and Maureen Tompson of Wellington had been at the N.Z.A.D. Meeting in Auckland and carried on to Hamilton the following weekend.
• The good news for deaf people was that Teletext Captioning on special T.V. sets with decoders will be available in September. 
• The marriages of Lee-Ann Holt and Michael Rose, and Shona Simpson and Colin Beamsley. 
• The Otago Deaf Society Indoor Bowls Group had a very busy Easter Weekend. They were busy organising and preparing food, etc for the N.Z. Deaf Indoor Bowls Championships held in Dunedin. 
• Our thanks once again to Kelly Quirke and Erina Haronga for the illustrations in this issue, and to Gay Kearney for the big job of typing. Well done!
• The N.Z.C.D.A. General Meeting was hosted in Auckland, with Maree Carroll, Gay Kearney, Peter Tait, Lorraine Nilsson and Sister Mercedes also attending.