TOUR OF SCHOOLBOYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21007, 19 October 1931, Page 8

TOUR OF SCHOOLBOYS.

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. That travel is one of tha best means of education is the opinion of Mr. T. A. Lappin, who, with Mr. N. P. Pitcaithly, is organising the tour of schoolboys to Australia next Christmas. Both of the organisers are on tho staff of the Auckland Grammar School, and have had a large experience in conducting boys' tours and games. "The object of the tour," said Mr. Lappin, "is to broaden the minds of the boys, and so to make them better New Zealanders, at the same time enabling them to investigate many interesting features of Australia by means of that excellent educator, tho eye. Boys with scientific or mechanical minds will be attracted by the working of the Morwell brown coal deposits in an open cut, the manufacture of briquettes, and by the giant electric scheme at Yallourn. They will see the steel works and naval yards at Newcastle and will have a private inspection of tho Harbour Bridge. Farmers' sons will bo delighted with Hawkesbury College; young aviators, by the Wapiti planes at Richmond. Geography notebooks should be filled, especially at the Jenolan caves, the Blue Mountains and Canberra. The sporting element will seo tho third test mutch against thf> South Africans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and will meet Don Bradman. At tho end of the tour the boys will spend a week in tho surf at Manly. "As it is desired to make the party fully representative of New Zealand, boys over 14 from any school are eligible for membership, but We are limiting the party to 30."