TO TOUR N.Z.
Visit Of Public School Boys In February.
BONDS OF EMPIRE.
(Australian and N.K. Press Association.) LONDON, November 30.
Under the auspices of the Public Schools Empire Tour Committee, Mr. L. S. Amery's creation, of which Dr. Rendall is chairman, 40 selected boys from Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Charterhouse and Stowe are to make a seven weeks' tour of New Zealand. They will sail on January 4 by the lonic, and arrive at Wellington on February 11.
Mr. Darling, a Charterhouse master, is to be the leader of the party, with Lieutenant Smith-Dorien as his assistant. The advance agent is Mr. Francis Portal. He will arrive in Wellington on January 14 by the Corinthic.
The party will leave New Zealand on March 28 for London, visiting the Australian capitals en route. The obj jetive of Mr. Darling is to make those whose future is connected with the destiny of the Empire cognisant of the peoples and the conditions of the great self-govern-ing Dominions. Thus he hopes to knit the Empire closer by mutual understanding.
The tours made to South Africa and Canada were conspicuous successes. Probably next year's tour will be to Australia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 1 December 1928, Page 9
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