Rodney Roberts

News Review covers some difficult topics

1989 •
TV/MEDIA
Ava Buzzard presents more news in NZSL during the weekly News Review TV show. This segment covered a news report that aired directly after partial coverage of the 16th World Games for the Deaf in Christchurch.
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Ava Buzzard presents more news in NZSL during the weekly News Review TV show. This segment covered a news report that aired directly after partial coverage of the 16th World Games for the Deaf in Christchurch. Topics covered include the death of Emperor Hirohito, a Government programme to limit the use of geo-thermal bores in Rotorua, Far North flooding, changes to crewing on New Zealand ships, a serious UK aeroplane crash (the Kegworth air disaster), and reprisal killings in India.

  1. Ava Buzzard

Donated by Rodney Roberts
Produced by News Review, Television New Zealand
Original format VHS-C
Reference number RR24-03-TV89
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