AN EMPIRE MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 8

AN EMPIRE MOVEMENT.

EDUCATION BY TRAVEL. BOYS TO TOUR AMERICA. DOMINION PARTY INCLtJDED. ,A contingent of thirty New Zealand boys will be included in. the party ..arranged by the' Young Australia League to make a tour of Canada and the United States next year. ' The remainder of the party will consist of 100 boys from the Commonwealth, '. This is the first occasion oif which the. league has provided the opportunity for; New Zealand boya to make the tour.' The idea is in accordance with a desire to extend the.ideas of the organisation, to other parts of the Empire. The proposal is for the boys to leave Wellington on December 31, and after calling at Rarotonga and Tahiti, the. first long -stop will be San Francisco. The itinerary will be shaped approximately as follows:—San Francisco to Los Angeles, with subsidiary trips to Pasadena, Long Beach and other Californian points, thence, to Grand Canyon of Arizona, El Paso (New Mexico), San Antonio, New Orleans, Birmingham, At-' lanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington, New York, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and i Chicago. From Chicago, Canadian territory would' be again traversed, taking in the points between Winnipeg, Banff and Vancouver. The tour is open to boys throughout New Zealand between the ages of- 14 and 17 years., at a cost of £135. The tour will be un<jer the personal direction of the founder and ton. director of the league, Mr; J. J. Simons, who has led the previpus toure, and who has at times been at the head of parties embracing 7000 boys. In" order to give parents an opportunity of talking over the proposal, an officer of the league, Mr. John Tucker, will make a tour of New Zealand during October and November. The league is anxious that the New Zealand quota should keep their own national identity throughout the tour, ■■ and for that reason, the company from the Dominion will carry the New Zealand flag on all officinj parades, whilst the emblem on the uniforms will be Uie fern leaf instead of the kangaroo, as will be worn by the Australian boys,