Children safe
PA Blenheim Thirty Hamilton schoolchildren on their way home missed injury by metres when their bus left the road on Queen Charlotte Drive, in the Marlborough Sounds, yesterday. Part of the bus was left hanging over the side of a steep 30m bank. The driver, Mr John Cooke, quickly led the children from the bus. Mr Cooke’s daughter.
Ruth, looked after the children while her father flagged down a passing motorist and set off for Picton to get help. A contractor later hauled out the bus with a frontend loader. It was not badly damaged. The children from the Fairfield Intermediate School, have been touring the South Island for two weeks and were to have sailed in the 2 p.m. ferry from Picton.
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Press, 3 September 1977, Page 1
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