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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 4

Loan proposals involving an expenditure of over £600,000. which have been considered by the Local Government Loans Board, will ho discussed by the Auckland City Council at a special meeting to-morrow night. The issues are the proposed workers’ dwellings loan of £200,000 and a works loan of £460,700, which were submitted to the Loans Board for its sanctions, and the council has now received the views of the board.

A party of 23 English public school boys, who are at present making an educational tour of Australia, will arrive in New Zealand about the first week in April to see something of the Dominion before returning to England by way of the Panama Canal. The visit is one of a series of Empire tours, ot which the last was to Australia in 1931, organised by the School Empire Tour Committee of Great Britain, representatives of three British Government offices and the headmasters of four English public schools. The boys pay their own expenses and careful organisation has reduced the cost of the tour, which will take the boys practically round the world, to about £l6O ft head,