NZ Deaf News: Autumn 1989 (Vol. 23. No. 1)

Some of the items featured in the Autumn 1989 (Vol. 23, No. 1) issue of ‘New Zealand Deaf News’:

  • The NZ Deaf News made a return after three years of the ‘NFD Journal’ due to popular demand, published by the NZ Association of the Deaf. 
  • $18,500 was fundraised for the Bruce McHattie Memorial Trust, through the 10th Annual One Day Charity Golf Benefit for the Deaf, by the Auckland Leagues Club. 
  • A search begins for a ‘Communication Trainer’, a deaf person who is an expert in sign language, and who also has experience in training deaf people to teach sign language to hearing people. 
  • ADS Inc has its first Leadership Training Weekend with four trainers: Daniel Beech, John Hunt, Dulcie McKie and Laurie Schischka. 
  • Tauranga is looking to form a Deaf Club very soon with lots of young deaf interested. 

  1. Bernie Clews

  2. Dennis Tod

  3. Dulcie McKie

  4. Eileen Smith

  5. Hilary McCormack

  6. Jeff Went

  7. Joan Bailey

  8. John Hunt

  9. Ken Brain

  10. Ken Jillings

  11. Kevin Pivac

  12. Laurie Schischka

  13. Lee Bullivant

  14. Lorraine Neilsen

  15. Mac McKie

  16. Maureen Tompson

  17. Michael Granger

  18. Michelle Sinclair

  19. Owen Gibbons

  20. Pat Dugdale

  21. Paul Buzzard

  22. Paul Henderson

  23. Polly Fechney

  24. Robert Marquet

  25. Ron Dick

  26. Shona McGhie

  27. Sonia Pivac

  28. Terry Bailey

  29. Terry Walbran

  30. Wallace Williams

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