NFD Communicate: Summer 1996/97

Some of the items featured in the Summer 1996/97 (Vol. 5, No. 4) Issue of ‘NFD Communicate’:

The Deaf Association explains how to book an interpreter, and the difference between an interpreter and communicator.
A report on the 19th New Zealand Games for the Deaf, held in Auckland during Labour Weekend 1996. Two hundred athletes from Otago to Auckland entered in the following sports: basketball, gold, lawn bowls, netball, ten pin bowling, touch rugby.
Shona McGhie retires from the NZDSA Executive Committee after 10 years of service as the Hon. Secretary.
Johanna Brens wins a scholarship to go to the UK to become a trainer of Hearing Dogs.

Can you help?

Dean Gould

Fetuao Ualesi

Margaret Cooper

Margaret Cooper

Marion Forrest (Butcher)

Marion Forrest (Butcher)

Shona McGhie

Tricia Fitzgerald

Tricia Fitzgerald

Relevant Links

National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, NFDC1996-6-2-MJN

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