Newsboys Visit Australia
MELBOURNE, August 9 Fifty-six United States “junior diplomats” have arrived in Australia on the beginning of a twomonth educational and goodwill tour. They are between 12 and 17 and are newspaper delivery boys from 30 associated newspapers in the United States. They will see almost every facet of Australian life—its people, industry, anijnal and bird life, nightspots and other highlights - An Australian schoolboy baseball team will play the Americans in Melbourne tomorrow and the visitors- have challenged an Australian schoolboy side to cricket.
They will meet Australian sportsmen, attend a reception given by the Lord Mayor of Sydney (Aiderman H. Jensen), surf, swim and sample Australian sheep station life and campfire concerts' The boys are from Hearst newspapers.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 9
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121Newsboys Visit Australia Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 9
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