Presents but no luggage
PA Auckland Despite the trauma of being in the United Airlines accident, Noeleen Harper, aged 15, did not forget to bring home her mother’s present from Disneyland.
The Dargaville High School pupil returned home from her holiday in the United States yesterday with her brother, Carl, aged 10, minus their luggage, which is being checked by authorities in Honolulu, but clutching their presents. Before heading on their threeweek holiday their mother, Mrs Katrina Harper, asked Noeleen to bring her back a Minnie Mouse from Disneyland. Mrs Harper said that despite everything that must have happened on flight 811, and in all the confusion afterwards, Noeleen remarkably did not leave Minnie Mouse behind.
Carl also did not let go of his possession, a toy gorilla he bought on a tour of Universal Studios.
Though Mrs Harper and relatives had a tearful reunion with Noeleen and Carl at Auckland International Airport yesterday the children did not show many signs of concern. “They were not worried about things at all.
“They knew what was going on throughout and they just did what people told them to.”
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