BOND OF EMPIRE.

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 10

BOND OF EMPIRE.

FORGING ANOTHER LINK.

ENGLISH SCHOOLBOYS' VISIT.

WOT TO MIGRATE.

STUDYING NEW ZEALAND LIFE

"It is with a view to strengthening the bonds of Empire that this tour has been undertaken. Our Public School boys have a lot to learn In this respect, and you can learn a great deal more by travelling and seeing things for yourselves than by reading. We have all heard about New Zealand all our lives, and it is astonishing to realise how fat this country is ahead of England in its social and other laws. This tour will give us a golden opportunity to question our own concerns at Home. The boys are not going to migrate. They are out to learn all they can, and then, when the tour is completed, they will either go into business, or back to the universities. The tour will help them to keep that bond of Empire which is sd necessary to the whole of its component parts to-day."

The speaker was Mr. J. R. Darling, master at Charterhouse School, on board the lonic this morning. He is in charge of the party of 45 English Public School boys who have come out to undertake a tour oAinstruction. Mr. Darling explained that the main objects of these educational tours might be classified under the headings:—(l) To spread first-hand knowledge at Home; (2) to exchange views and establishment of personal contact with contemporaries and others in the Dominions; (3) to study ocal conditions from the point of view kl^ Po f? ible sett 'er. These being the ,e ? tß . of the so! ' eil| e, it will be CMeg 'Vhis case, as in other to everl H <^l ,cing the P artv of hovs as P ect of tho ''ft' of i ■ tk " "«'< . country »» • U " universities, No institutions' . d,str 'cts, pubThey will k! , lts industrial aaturaiSlJ^ n ® lM ? WII New Zea)ake» and other woria t Its "lountains ° hiecU mil, o! ■tudyina £,™ e ,? nd . ui tha A?ssai the life

"By this means," said Mr. Darling, "it is hoped to accelerate the development of still greater mutual interest and understanding, than even at present exists, between this country and the various other nations of the Empire; and so to strengthen the forces that bind them, by improved knowledge through personal contact. It is not necessary to remind New Zealand of the Homeland's existence, or vice versa, for that matter,"s continued Mr. Darling, "but I feel sure that this tour will help to bind that relationship which already exists. It is our duty to help in everv way to strengthen those bonds, and so long as we think and act along those lines, so will it be better in every way for the Empire as a whole and each individual member of it."