TOUR OF INDIA
BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS.
PARTY ROYALLY ENTERTAINED.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, April 7. Twenty boys belonging to 12 British public schools have returned to London after a 6000-mile tour of India. The journey was organized by the School Empire Tour Committee. The boys spent two months in India in charge of a master at Rugby School. They dined with the Viceroy, had tea with Congress leaders, rode camels, saw the sun rise on Mt Everest from a distance of 100 miles, went in search of a tiger, shopped in the native bazaars, arid drove through the Khyber Pass. Many important cities were visited and the boys were royally entertained everywhere.
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Southland Times, Issue 22295, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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