YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3890, 2 October 1928, Page 68

YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE.

TOUR OF CANADA AND AMERICA: NEW ZEALAND BOYS TO BE INCLUDED. WELLINGTON, September 28. Mr John Tucker, the 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 30 New Zealand boys to be attached to the 2X.ustralian party which will tour Canada and America for six months next year, visited the Prime Minister this morning and was very sympathetically received. Mr Coates expressed his approval of commingling the boys of the Commonwealth and of the Dominion, and considered that 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 the boys shall re tain their own identity throughout the tour, carrying Dominion flags, wearing their own emblems, and, alternately with their brother Australians, lead the march. The boys who have ability will be chosen to speak on behalf of their Dominion at each of the functions tendered them by the colleges and the 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 touring parties he has conducted. Landing at San Francisco and proceeding through the States to Washington, the tourists will be received by the President at White House, and will then proceed to Ottawa, where they will he received by the Prime Minister, of Canada. They will then by gradual steps journey across Canada, stopping over at all the 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 17 next.

Mr Tucker will travel through both islands, faking Palmerston North first on October 8, and then the other principal towns, and in November he will visit the South Island.