NZ Deaf News: July 1983

Some of the items featured in the July 1983 issue of ‘New Zealand Deaf News’ (Vol. 20, No. 3):

District ‘Round-Up’ from Auckland Deaf Society, Waikato Deaf Club, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu Deaf Society, Wellington Deaf Society, Christchurch Deaf Society,
NZAD and the NZ Federation for Deaf Children updates the community on their respective annual general meetings.
The Sign Singers talk about their involvement in the Mardi Gras celebrations with their own handmade ‘I Love You’ hand-pushed trolley.
The first ever Deaf Awareness Week was held from 24 April to 1 May 1983.

Can you help?

Barbara Hazelwood

Barbara Hazelwood

Bruce McHattie

Daniel Beech

Dulcie McKie

Gloria Fage

Jennifer Brain

John Hunt

Lee Bullivant

Lorraine Nilsson

Lorraine Nilsson

Margaret Coutts

Margaret Coutts

Marilyn Welham

Peter Downie

Polly Forman (Karaka)

Polly Forman (Karaka)

Ray Forman

Shirley Withers

Shirley Withers

Tom Still

Reference number:

DN1983-20-3-MJN

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