Story: Rural services

School bus, 1920s

School bus, 1920s

From the 1920s a school bus service began, to transport children from around a country district to a centrally-located school. Here children line up to board a bus bound for Piopio, Waikato, around 1924.

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Nancy Swarbrick, 'Rural services - Roads', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/18544/school-bus-1920s (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 Nov 2008