SCHOOLBOYS' TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 3

SCHOOLBOYS' TOUR

PARTY ON ROTORUA

SEND-OFF. AT LONDON

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 22nd December.

Among the passengers who sailed by the Eotorua to-day were the twentyeight public schoolboys who are to tour New Zealand. They set out in fair weather, and if they are lucky they will be in the region of the summer seas before they notice the motion of the ship.

The young_ travellers, with their relatives and friends, arrived at the Liverpool Street Station more than half an hour before the boat train left, and received a few words of good advice from Dr. M. J. Kendall, C.M.G., chairman of the Empire Tour Committee. He told them to remember that they were representatives of a great system of English education which was the admiration of the world, jbb hoped they would carry out that tradition wherever they went. "You .will probably experience tremendous kindness and goodwill," .said Df. Kendall. "Meet that goodwill with goodwill, and never never with, the critical mind. Express your gratitude at every turn, and do ■ir. ~ c for granted, but with the spirit of the best type of receiver." "" r

The High Commissioner was to have been present, but as the time of meeting had been altered he was unable to put off another engagement. Mr. F. T. Sandford (secretary of the High Commissioner's Department) deputised. He said that undoubtedly Sir Thomas Wilford would have told them they were the luckiest boys in' England, iney were going into beautiful summer weather in the most bqautif ul counfortunate. They were to be ambassa- £ i.?^ 6 ' and tke HJ £ h Cqmmis. sioner had requested that when they returned they should form a deputation or come singly and tell Mm what they thought of New Zealand. ''When you return/ said Mr. Sandford, 'tell your parents about your trip, and let them know that for the price they would pay to spend the winter at'the South of Prance they can travel m fine ships, leaving the z£? X} a**!h find the ™« in New Zealand, and return in time for the summer jn this country. The Government of' New Zealand have granted S^J^W °Ver the rail^ayl and surely this is an mdication*Hhat they really want you to enjoy yourselves.'' He wished them good luck and "everything m the garden to be better." _ Colonel Nigel'. Charteris, C.M.G., D.5.0., assured the parents that he would do his utmost to justify the confidence they, had reposed in him He W d th/ b°ys t0 com* t0 wi at all c?tlL ani ai!f •^ ne with their difficulties. Finally he called for a hearty Be t Sb^S t0 th% HOn- *^ S»V™ :p (hon- seeret"7 of the Em£™Ziw ? ommittee) and to Dr. M. J. Kendall (chairman) for the work they aad done in organising the tour