Government assurance on Far North school bus runs

School bus services for more than 80 Rawene and Omanaia schoolchildren will continue next year.

Associate Education Minister Marion Hobbs says the Government will pay for school bus runs for Rawene and Omanaia children.

Rawene School had been told that the bus taking 44 children to and from the school would stop running at the end of this year because it was operating outside Ministry of Education guidelines.

Omanaia school ran its own bus for 42 children out of its education budget.