Stranded Passengers Continue Journey
(New Zealand Press Association)
DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. The 25 passengers in a N.Z. Railways bus believed to have been stranded north of the Franz Josef Hotel on Tuesday night, stayed at the hotel instead of trying to continue on to Greymouth. Fifteen of the passengers had spent Monday night sleeping in an N.Z.R. bus at the Ministry of Works camp at Big Slip, east of the Haast Pass. The fifteen people and ten others from a bus which left Queenstown on Tuesday were transferred to a third bus, when it was found that the Fox suspension bridge was unsafe. Back To Hotel
The third bus had come south from Franz Josef, and it took the passengers back to the hotel for the night.
They were taken on to Greymouth this morning. The normal N.Z.R. Grey-
mouth-Franz Josef bus on Tuesday morning was stranded at Whataroa, about 60 miles south of Greymouth, and the 15 passengers were put up by residents in the village. The bus was able to get through to the Fox late today. Three tour buses were stranded on Tuesday at Franz Josef, but left for Wanaka at about 3.30 p.m. today.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31278, 26 January 1967, Page 12
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