NEW ZEALAND BOYS TO VISIT CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND BOYS TO VISIT CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

WILL BE RECEIVED AT WHITE HOUSE. y Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 28. Mr John Tucker, New Zealand representative of the Young Australia League, is in Wellington, making preparatory arrangements for a tour of the Dominion, with the object of forming a company* of thirty New Zealand boys, to be attached po an Australian party that will tour Canada and America for six months next year. He waited on the Prime Minister this morning and was most sympathetically received. Mr Coates expressed his approval of commingling boys of the Commonwealth and the Dominion, and considered that great benefits were possible from such a tour. It is the intention of the league authorities, if a company is formed in the Dominion, that they shall retain their own identity throughout the tour, carrying Dominion flags, wearing their own emblems, and, alternately with the Australians, lead the march. Boys who have ability will be chosen to speak on behalf of their Dominion at each of the functions tendered to them by colleges and universities in Canada and America, 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. Great success has been achieved by him in all touring parties he has conducted. Landing at San Francisco, and proceeding through the States to Washington. the party will be received by the President at White House. They will proceed to Ottawa, where they will be received by the Prime Minister of Canada. Then, by gradual steps, they will journey across Canada, stopping over at all 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, taking Palmerston North first on October 8, and then other principal towns. In November he will visit the South Island.