4:44 pm today

Pahiatua to host reunion for surviving polish refugee children

From Checkpoint, 4:44 pm today

They arrived 80 years ago, shaven-headed and uncertain. But the 733 Polish refugee children and about 100 caregivers were welcomed with open arms - in Pahiatua. The Tararua town will next week host some of the surviving few, and their descendants, to cement a bond of eight decades. Jimmy Ellingham has the story.