ENGLISH BOYS ON TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 10

ENGLISH BOYS ON TOUR.

VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. [FROM our own correspondent.] CAPETOWN, Nov. 1. A party of English public school boys will tour South Africa early next year. There will be 35 or 40 of them and they are to visit all the four provinces of the Union and also Southern Rhodesia. They will arrive on January 16. The tour has been arranged by the School Empire Tour Committee, which was appointed not long ago by Mr. J* S. Amery. The first tour took place last year, when a party visited Australia. Recently a representative of the committee, Mr. G. Palmer, arrived in Capetown ait advance agent of the tour. Mr. Palmer explained that the members of the party would be boys chosen from any of the public schools and they would be aged from 17 to 20—boys who had just left school, though possibly one or two might be returning. "We hope to see all sides of South African life, farming, factories arm mines," said Mr. Palmer. "The object oi: the tour is educational; you niig" l ' call it Empire propaganda. It is a part oi: the 'See Your Empire First Movement.' " The chairman of the committc :s Dr. M. J. Rendall, headmaster of Winchester, who toured South Africa as travelling secretary for the Rhodes Trust in 1924. Mr.'J. L. Thomas, a master of Rugby School, will be in charge of the tour and Mr. George Horton will act as secretary. The boys will have two months in South Africa and they leave for England again on March 23.