1980
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Ephpheta: June 1980 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
NZSL Stories
1978
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Sport Representatives, N.Z. Deaf Societies Convention, 1978
NZSL Stories
1992
video – Taonga source: Rodney Roberts
Canterbury plays Wellington ‘Lions’ in a close match of rugby league
The Wellington ‘Lions’ Rugby League team assembled at the Randwick Club to welcome their Canterbury opponents. After the match, players and supporters enjoy the Randwick hospitality before moving on to a private venue.
NZSL Stories
1985
article – Taonga source: Wellington Deaf Society
Overcoming the invisible handicap
It takes only a few minutes in the company of Pat Dugdale to realise that she has a mischievous sense of fun. It’s almost as if she enjoys shocking people and then watching their reaction.
biography
Profile
Elizabeth ‘Maree’ Carroll (QSM)
Maree has given decades of generous service to the community in which she lives. Maree was heavily involved in organising the St Dominic's School for the Deaf school reunions which enabled the school community to remain connected over many decades. Maree was instrumental in establishing the Manawatu Deaf Society, taking a leading role.
1982
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Basketball Club, 1982
NZSL Stories
1986
article – Taonga source: NZPA
Communing In Silence
Deaf people gatherered near the front of the papal Mass as interpreter Rachel Locker translated for them. She said it was one of the hardest job she had done because of the religious language.
NZSL Stories
2016
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Deaf Southern Star: 2016 (Vol. 38, No. 3)
1994
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
1944 – 1994: St Dominic’s celebrates its Golden Jubilee!
Around 250 people attended the 50th Jubilee, commemorating 50 years of St Dominic’s School for the Deaf. Footage shows many old photo albums, reunion photos being taken, a Jubilee Mass and a visit to the old Dover Street school grounds.
1984
video – Taonga source: Television New Zealand Archive
National Sports Convention for the Deaf in Auckland 1984
Jane Dent reports on the National Sports Convention for the Deaf held in Auckland during Labour Weekend in 1984. The footage screened on the 6:30pm news on Saturday 20 October 1984.
NZSL Stories
1985
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Sports Representatives, Napier 1985
NZSL Stories
1990
article – Taonga source: Unknown
Games viewers riled by breaks for ads
Deaf people were incensed when a television commentator at the Commonwealth opening last night referred to an athlete as "deaf and dumb".
NZSL Stories
1980
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
Team Photo: Manawatu Deaf Society Basketball, N.Z. Deaf Sports Convention, 1980
NZSL Stories
1988
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Ephpheta: December 1988 (Vol. 11, No. 3)
1986
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
Team Photo: Manawatu Deaf Society Men’s Basketball, 1986
NZSL Stories
1989
article – Taonga source: The Press
Strong medical presence
The 1400 officials and competitors at the World Deaf Games will be well attended by a large group of medical doctors, St John Ambulance officers, physiotherapists, podiatrists and masseurs. Drug and gender tests will also be a part of the workload.
NZSL Stories
1989-90
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
St Dominic’s 45th Jubilee
There are many speeches from past pupils and staff recalling their time at St Dominic’s. The casually filmed footage covers part of the four-day 45th reunion at St Dominic’s School for the Deaf, with many speeches from past pupils and staff recalling their time at St Dominic’s.
1989
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Last Reunion on St Dominic’s Feilding Grounds
The four-day festivities at St Dominic’s School for the Deaf during New Year’s 1989/1990 were a weekend full of activities! It was the last such event on the St Dominic’s Feilding grounds with a deaf unit set-up at St Joseph’s School in Feilding in May 1989.
1978
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Basketball Club, 1978
NZSL Stories
1976
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society, New Zealand Deaf Sports Convention, Winners of Cunniffe Memorial Cup, 1976
NZSL Stories
2017
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Deaf Southern Star: 2017 (Vol. 39, No. 3)
1970
video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Teaching the Deaf: St Dominic’s School for the Deaf in Feilding
What was school life was like for pupils who attended St Dominic’s School for the Deaf in Feilding? Footage includes hearing tests, classroom teaching, and celebrating a pupil’s 5th birthday with his classmates, before Mass with the Sisters.
2014
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Deaf Southern Star: 2014 (Vol. 36, No. 4)
1979
Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society
Team Photo: Manawatu Deaf Society Basketball Team, N.Z. Deaf Sports Convention, 1979
NZSL Stories
1991
article – Taonga source: The Guardian
Deaf drama group presents NZ first
The Manawatu Deaf Drama Group (MADEDRA) will present a show at Abbey Theatre, before taking it to Auckland for the Deaf View Conference and eventually, hope to travel overseas.
1944
article – Taonga source: NZ Tablet
Catholic Education For Deaf-Mute Children
The story of Catholic Deaf-Mute education, what has been done for deaf students by Dominican Nuns, and the new St. Dominic’s School for Deaf Children in Wellington.
1976
Images – Taonga source: Auckland Deaf Society
Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Sports Representatives, N.Z. Deaf Societies Convention, 1976
NZSL Stories
1984
publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre
Ephpheta: Summer 1984 (Vol. 7, No. 4)
1995
article – Taonga source: NZ Herald
Signs from the silent world
Deaf students have the right to equal access to tertiary education but who will pay for sign language interpreters?
2004
Images – Taonga source: Central Zone Deaf Rugby Union
Team Photo: Central Zone Deaf Rugby Union, 2004
