YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 5

YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE

(By Telegraph-Press Association). WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. - John Tucker, New Zealand 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 Hew 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. ; v :; A Mr Coates expressed his approval of the co-mingling of Iboys of the Commonwealth and Dominion and considered great benefits were possible from such a tour.

It is the intention of the League authorities that should a company be formed in the Dominion, that they; shall retain their own identity throughout the tour carrying Domin-; ion flags, wearing their own emblems and alternately with their brother Australian, lead the march. Boys who have 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 among the youth of the American continent, that cannot otherwise be secured.

The founder and director of the organisation, J. J. Simons, who will be in command of the party, is one of. the world’s outstanding men in hoys work, a huge success having been achieved by him in all 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 31st December and will return to Auckland by the Aorangi on 17th June next year. They will travel through both islands taking Palmerston first on October Bth and th«n other principal towns and in November will visit the South Tisland.