Spectacular fireworks to be on display at Springbank School

The Springbank School annual fireworks show is always a spectacular event, as this image from last year shows.

Springbank School is holding its annual fireworks show this Saturday, after postponing the event earlier this month due to forecast bad weather.

The school gates open at 5pm for an evening of kai, live music, rides and raffles, with one of the Far North's biggest fireworks shows starting at 9pm.

To make the show more accessible to people in the Mid North, the school is putting on free buses from Kawakawa, Paihia, Kerikeri and Kaikohe for the first time.

The 45-seater buses will operate on a "first in, first served" basis and depart at 5pm from outside Subway in Kerikeri, the depot on Mangakahia Rd (opposite Bunnings) in Kaikohe, the Maritime Building in Paihia and the carpark behind the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa.

Two buses will leave from Kerikeri and Kaikohe and one from Paihia and Kawakawa.

The buses will leave Springbank for the return trip at 9.45pm sharp. The free buses have been made possible by a grant from the Far North District Council.

Entry to the show is $5 and under-fives are free. The venue is alcohol, drugs and smokefree, but people can take their own picnic.

The school is on Waimate North Rd, off State Highway 10 north of the Kerikeri roundabout.