DEAF MUTES' INSTITUTE.
; « There were seventy-five children last term at the Sumner Deaf Mutes' Institute,' which lias just broken up for the annual holidays, Tlio number has been increasing steadily/of rfScent yearsi and over eighty are expected next term. The headmaster, Mr. J.' E. Stevens, who brought a number of tlio children to their homes about Wellington last Friday, states that the new buildings have revolutionised the conditions under which the work of tlio institution is carried on. At least one family in Australia has shipped to New Zealand to enjoy the advantages of the school,! though the oral method hero adopted is,' we are informed, taught in some of the Australian schools,' in conjunction with the finder system. In tho Now Zealand Institute the finger method is rigorously tabooed.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 71, 17 December 1907, Page 8
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130DEAF MUTES' INSTITUTE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 71, 17 December 1907, Page 8
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