Tonga's deputy prime minister is focused on getting the schoolchildren involved in a Christmas Eve bus tragedy in New Zealand home.
Siaosi Sovaleni was in New Zealand when it happened and travelled to Gisborne, as did New Zealand's Pacific Peoples Minister Alfred Ngaro.
Tongan citizens Sione Taumololo, 11, and Talita Fifita, 33, died in the crash and 10 others are still in three separate hospitals in stable condition.
The bus carrying 53 people crashed through a road barrier and down a bank on State Highway 2 about 30km south of Gisborne at 9.30pm on Saturday.
The school brass band from Tonga was travelling to Gisborne's Wesleyan Methodist Church where they were due to perform on Christmas Day.