Children from Sumner School for the Deaf are given the opportunity to test their navigational abilities in a car rally at Sumner. We see short clips of the children getting into the cars, and looking at the navigation maps, and them leaving the school in various cars.
Deaf children enjoy a car rally
1968 •
- Deaf Education
Children from Sumner School for the Deaf test their navigational abilities in a car rally at Sumner.
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Taonga source:
Television New Zealand Archive
Original format:
FILM B/W NEGORIG Mute
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, TVNZ01-01-EDU68
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