OUTWARD BOUND
Warden Reports On U.K. Tour (N2 Press Association) AUCKLAND. May 21. After several months in Britain. Mr H S Thomas, of Christchurch, is convinced that New Zealand youth will be made better by the Outward Bound movement. “The movement has its place in New Zealand as in every other country." he said at Whenuapai on his return this evening As warden of the Cobham Outward Bound School to be set up at Anakiwa in Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr Thomas visited five such schools in Britain.
“They do what everybody says they do." he said. “My observations showed that every boy who went through a course ’venefited” Mr Thomas said Anakiwa was quite the best site in the world tor an outward bound school He had gathered considerable information on the setting u. and running of a school and would present it to a meeting of the New Zealand Outward BoundTrust Council at Anakiwa on Saturday Mr Thomas expects the school to begin with about 40 boys in each course, the number increasing to about 70 when the staff has settled in. Each course, he thought, ■would last just less than a month.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29828, 22 May 1962, Page 15
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