TO VISIT N.Z.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19482, 1 December 1928, Page 15

TO VISIT N.Z.

PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —EI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPIBIOHT.) (Received November 30th, 9.56 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. Under the auspices of the Public Schools' Empire Tour Committee, which "Was formed by Mr Xi. S. Amery, Dr. Rendall, the chairman, and 40 selected boys from Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Charterhouse, and Stowe, are participating in a seven weeks' tour of New Zealand, sailing on January 4th by the lonic, and arriving at Wellington on February 11th. Mr Darling, a Charterhouse master, is the leader. The advance agent, Mr Francis Portal, is arriving in Wellington on January 14th by the Corinthic. The party will leave New Zealand on March 28th for London, visiting the Australian capitals en route. The objective of Mr Darling is "to make those whose future is connected with the destiny of the Empire cognisant of the peoples and conditions of the great self-governing Dominions, thus knitting the Empire closer by mutual understanding." Tours have been made to South Africa and Canada with conspicuous success, and probably the next tour will be to Australia. —Australian Press AAssociat tion. .