Pahiatua residents line streets in tribute to 'Polish children'
Just as they did 80 years ago today, residents of Pahiatua lined the lower North Island town's streets to bid a special and emotional tribute to a group of people forever known as the 'Polish children'. Back then it was a welcome, for those who had escaped the horrors of the second world war, to start a new life here. But today - those children are now in their 80s and 90s - and today's special tribute brought back huge emotion with one describing it as "out of this world," reporter Jimmy Ellingham was there.