Students want ride to Bola clean-up

Press, 13 April 1988, Page 8

Students want ride to Bola clean-up

Plans by 45 Lincoln College students of horticulture to go to Gisborne to help clean up after; Cyclone Bola have; struck transport difficulties. I Mr Mike Connor, i a spokesman for the group, said i the students were able to get to Wellington but needed help to 1 get from ( Wellington to ; Gisborne. . The students ■ plan to spend five days ini the area | during Anzac ; Day weekend, ' and lectures have! been specially rearranged to suit them. | “If the trip does not go ahead there won’t be any . t l I '’ I ■

lectures anyway," said Mr Connor. ’<■ An engineering lecturer ; is travelling .with the group, who will fly standby to Wellington. But the students have ( no way of getting from ' Wellington to Gisborne. A bus for the helpers ; was expected to cost | about $2OOO. Federated ( Farmers, } which has helped organise the visit,i cannot afford this sum. -I Mr Connor said, “We ■ still want to go and we are going to try to make it happen.” j The group wants a bus

company, to offer a bus j from Wellington to Gis-[ borne; :or sponsorship; from the public to pay for' the cost; of hiring a bus. j Mr Connor said that) jflying standby to Gisborne; iwas not possible because; <of the size of planes on 1 | the route | and the infre-( quency /of; flights. The igrpup would do cleaning • and fencing work, as well as help in market 1 gardens and orchards, |id the Gisborne district, [ The : I students plan to stay with rural families in the area. •’h j ! • ; I