TITLED VISITOR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 6

TITLED VISITOR

SCOTTISH NOBLEMAN By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, January 5. Stating that he was an Imperialist by conviction and he had always been deeply interested in the British Commonwealth of Nations, Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton who arrived in Auckland by the Waiwera to-night to make arrangements for a tour of the Dominion by a party of English public schoolboys, expressed the opinion that such tours would do much to bring people in the Old Country closer to the people in the Dominions. Tire party, which will comprise from 20 to 30 members, will arrive in the Dominion on February 28 under the direction of Mr A. E. C. Cornwall, housemaster at Marlborough. “Education in the widest sense of the word is the object of the tour, which is the twentieth to be arranged by the School Empire Tour Committee and the third to New Zealand,” said Lord Douglas-Hamilton.” Coming as it does towards the end of the boys’ schooldays it affords an unrivalled opportunity for broadening their outlook and for acquiring a sense of propoir tion.” It was hoped the boys woulu have the opportunity of living on farms for periods of a few days at a time so that they might carry away some idea of the work on which the main wealth of New Zealand was based. A three day walk across the Southern Alps was planned.