SCHOOLGIRLS’ TOUR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 10

SCHOOLGIRLS’ TOUR

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND PARTY COMING FROM BRITAIN LONDON, March 4. In 1928 a party of girls between the iges of If and 19, representing 16 of the leading public schools, toured Canada under the auspices of the Schoolgirls Oversea Tour Committee and with tlie. approval of the Oversea Settlement- Department. Writing to the limes the officials ..of-the committee now announce a further tour. “The committee,” they say, “believes that the interest which the tour aroused and the benefit gained by the girls justify it- in making a second venture lor girls of similar ages and with the same qualifications. It has now been decided to organise a tour to New Zealand, where, thanks to the generous co-opera-tion of the Victoria League, which has accepted responsibility for all lhe arrangements, an interesting visit is assured. The party of 26 will sail early in January, 1931, and will. travel outwards via Suez and return via the Cape, ■reaching England about June. “In tho rase of all young. people, especially girls, it is obviously important that care should he taken to ensure right supervision on such a journey. Miss Edith Thompson, > C.8.E., who acted as director of tlie Canadian tour, lias been appointed to be in charge o: the party, and associated with her will be a sooond-in-eommand with some nursing experience.' Tlie inclusive cost of the tour will be no more than £l5O, to be homo by the parents of each girl. “Tho scheme has received the cordial support of tho Headmistresses’ Association, which hns appointed two members to servo on the sub-committee. We feei sure that the proposal has only to lie made known for many parents to take advantage of this opportunity and to ;ivo their daughters the chance of enlarging ‘ their understanding of hhe British E'uipire."—Auckland Herald.