AFTER THEIR TOUR
"A JOLLY COUNTRY"
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. " After a glorious holiday of six weeks in New Zealand, tho forty-four English schoolboys who arrived at Auckland on the lonic on 14th February, as a party organised by the Public Schools Empire Tour Committee, returned from-the South this morning to take ship for England. "I am just afraid that some of us will be rather bored when wo get Home, for we will bo full of New Zealand and want to tell our friends all about it," remarked one of the boys. "It is a jolly country," said another of the visitors. "What, struck us was the absence of grumbling among the people. Everyone seems happy, quite a contrast with England." All were agreed on that point. "And then you have no class distinction," commented another. "It seems a good idea to have things that way. We did notice, however, that there was a hint of it in Dunedin. Then, too, no one seems to want to take a tip, and that's a jolly "no idea, not that one minds giving money for services rendered, but it's the idea behind it—independence and all that sort of thing. We found that spirit throughout the country."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 72, 28 March 1929, Page 11
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214AFTER THEIR TOUR Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 72, 28 March 1929, Page 11
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