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Two Wellington schoolgirls who created a memorial to the victims of the Erebus air crash have met with one of the disaster's surviving relatives.
Natalie Conroy and Madison Atkin are a bubbly pair, but they've also got a serious side. The Hutt intermediate students were so moved by recent erebus commemorations they set out to make their own.
The resourceful pair convinced local businesses and the council to create a memorial in Lower Hutt's rose gardens. A move that earned them plenty of praise.
"My phone was just going mad, texts, phone calls, lots of emails," says Conroy.
And one of those emails was a particularly special one.
"My father John was killed along with the 256 other people on the plane. Please accept my sincerest thanks for your kind and thoughtful efforts in establishing this memorial," wrote Eric Houghton who was just three years older than the girls when his father was killed in the tragedy.
"I was blown away, I thought that was the end of it," says Houghton.
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