SCHOOLBOYS’ TOUR

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 98, 20 January 1938, Page 8

SCHOOLBOYS’ TOUR

English Party Due Next Month Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 19. Arrangements are still in the preliminary stage for the visit of 30 English public schoolboys to New Zealand next month, said Lord Malcolm DouglasHamilton to-day. The party, which will be under the direction of Mr. A. E. C. Cornwall, housemaster at Marlborough, will arrive at Wellington on February 28, an'd will spend five weeks in the Dominion. The object of the visit is for the lads to have an opportunity of making personal contacts with people in New Zealand and to find out how they live, think, and work. With this in mind it is hoped as far as possible to allot the boys as private guests to various families in the centres they visit. Visits to farms and stations are being arranged in order that the boys may see the way in which the farmer lives and works, in particular in Hawke’s Bay and Canterbury. Lord Douglas-Ham-ilton hopes to make it possible for the boys to stay for a few days at a time on stations in the districts. New Zealand’s scenic attractions have not been forgotten. A three-day walk is planned from Waiho through the Copeland Pass to The Hermitage, Mount Cook, where the party will spend a day. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, who is acting throughout as the advance agent of the party, will leave to-morrow for Hamilton and 'Wanganui. He will pilot a plane himself on his tour of arrangement through New Zealand, and after leaving Wanganui will fly to Wellington and later to Christchurch.