A group of Auckland Deaf travel to and from Wellington for the New Zealand Deaf Sports Convention during Labour Weekend, 1951. Deaf people are seen frolicking around in their cars, and having a jolly good time! Road trips such as this one became the norm for the Deaf Community from the early 1950s as the annual Deaf Sports Convention was hosted in different cities throughout New Zealand, giving the community incentive to travel to catch up with old friends, and to compete in competitions, many of which continue to this day.
Although there was a tug-o-war match in this video, it wasn’t until the formal ’75th Jubilee Memorial Shield’ was set up in 1955 for tug-o-matches.
