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No 214 : April 19, 1972.

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See All, Hear All!

Two of man's most wonderful gifts are those of seeing and hearing. Today's sights and sounds are a constant aftront to the senses and it behoves all parents to see that their children's eyes and ears get all the attention they need. One of the Health Department's functions is to check all school pupils for sight and hearing faults, thus paving the way for parents to have any deficiencies in their children remedied in the early stages.

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Health Department audio-vision technician, Mr Reese Gordon, takes a vision acuity test. Other kiddies wait their turn.

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Mr Gordon conducting an audio-metric test. The child puts a button into a box each time he or she hears a progressive signal. If failure to respond to certain signals occurs an audiogram can then be plotted.

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The school at Tukimokihi is only one of the many remote places, away from city schools, also visited by the Health Department people in the course of their duties.

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Mrs Lesley Jackson takes a test for colour vision defects.

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