NSW:Libs offer kids free trips to the zoo

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2011
NSW:Libs offer kids free trips to the zoo

SYDNEY, Feb 28 AAP - Children from disadvantaged schools in western Sydney will get
free VIP trips to the zoo under a NSW coalition government.

Youngsters will be invited to pack their trunks and say goodbye to the city for a couple
of days under the opposition's left-field plan.

The $400,000 scheme has been designed to tear children away from their computers and
televisions and boost visitor numbers at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, in the state's central
west.

The Dubbo zoo, home to rare black rhinos, giraffes, elephants and bongos, has …