BOYS’ TOUR
SUPPORT FROM MR COATES.
(Special to "Star.")
WELLINGTON, September 28.
Mr John Tucker, N.Z. representative of the Young Australia League, who is in Wellington making preparatory arrangements for a tour of the Dominion, with the object of forming a company of thirty New Zealand boys to be attached to the Australian party, who will be touring Canada and America for six months next year, visited the Prime Minister this morning, and was most sympathetically received.
Mr Coates expressed his approval of the commingling of the boys of . the Commonwealth and the Dominion, and considered great benefits were possible from such a tour. It is the intention of the League authorities, should a company be. formed. in the Dominion, that they shall retain their own identity throughout the tour, carrying Dominion flags, wearing their own emblems, and alternately with their brother Australians, lead the march. Boys who have the ability, will be chosen to speak on behalf of their Dominion at each of the functions tendered them by colleges and universities in Canada and America, thus ensuring publicity amongst the youth of the American continent that cannot otherwise be secured. The founder and director of the organisation, Mr J. J. Simons, who will be in command of the party, is one of the world’s outstanding men in boys’ work, huge success having been achieved by him in all the touring parties he has conducted. Landing at San Francisco, and proceeding through the States to Washington, the party will be received by the President at White House, and will then proceed to Ottawa where they will be received by the Prime Minister of Canada, and then by gradual steps, journey across Canada, stopping over at all prairie cities of interest. The party will leave Wellington by the Makura on December 31, and will return to Auckland by the Aorangi on June 27 next. Mr Tucker will travel through both Islands, taking Palmerston first on October 8, and then the other principal towns and in November will visit the South Island. <
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19280928.2.34
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 6
Word Count
340BOYS’ TOUR Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in