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School bus, 1920s

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18544/school-bus-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.