BUS CARRIAGE OF CHILDREN

Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 6

BUS CARRIAGE OF CHILDREN

Newspaper Report Corrected

(N.Z Press Association) WANGANUI, May 15. “I see no reason why a bus belonging to the State and travelling with empty seats should leave children to walk,” said Mr W. H. Brown. M.P., chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, today. Board members agreed and. after discussion, decided to ?rant an application by the Patea Convent Home and School Association to allow two children attending the convent to be carried in one of the board's buses. Before the matter was discussed, Mr Brown made a statement correcting a report in a weekly paper which had claimed that the bus was oicking up an- older boy from one family, and refusing tc carry younger children from the same family because the younger ones were attending a private school. This was incorrect, Mr Brown said. No application had come before the board until today's meeting, therefore no application had been refused. The board decided that the children mentioned in the ap. plication, from two families, would be carried at the board's pleasure, providing there was space on the bus. as there was at present. Any further cases would be decided on their merits, after application made to the board.