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Story: Country schooling

School bus, 1940s

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School bus, 1940s

Children and their teacher board the school bus at Denniston on the West Coast in 1944. Sole-charge teachers often had to drive the bus at the beginning and end of each day.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001324; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Country schooling – Wider options: 1900s–1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16504/school-bus-1940s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.