SCOTS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 10

SCOTS ABROAD.

f ''f -/'ffi l '" PILGRIMAGE TO SCOTLAND vM&t austbaua* ' 'Yf- *ZL ' " y. f 'f NEW ZEAT,ANDERS WANTED NEXT. ' . _ Sft ' ; i <Qf:' tliQ. 6|?B of Scotch, £frth. recently out an pilgrimage to \HB are returning to Niagara, which arriyad yesterday. The full Australia in April last on Hoifaon' Bay, and travelled by way Oi Suez. 2 They were precedes by■.-•sJ|j. A'-Gilchrist, general secre .JHipW league in j(nd 'Mrs. Gii&hfisii who spent two months' *&'■, organising ' committees throujagjoufc }S&£kuid, and then -;wei*t back ; <S' far as "Malta to meet ' the tourists. Mr. Gilchrist told a representative of Auckland Star" to-day that the pilgrimage had been a wonderful success. It ifcag the largest conducted party, which had ever left Australia. Apart'from the personal element, the been to give Australia and Australian products an advertisement ®[ich as they had 'never had before either in Scotland or in the countries visitedlon both ways of the journey. l--. Although pur people were giving their services in their own time for the Australia" said Mr, Gilchrist, they are full of appreciation of the wonderful tour they have had at a verv reasonable cost." Replying to a question, Mr. Gilchrist said that some of the travellers reckoned that their six "™nfcliH'Jour had cost them not more than each. Others, of course, had trailed more extensively and spent more money in proportion. visitors cannot find words to adelttiately express their appreciation of whft/they saw in England in May as from Plymouth to Londonfc jUid thence to Scotland, while in the land of their forefathers they were overwhelmed with kindness, as were soldiers froitf Australia and New Zealand during the tl?* r « ' A feature of the hospitality extended was the large number of invitations to.-private homes, and into homes the Australians took, small produced in the V -♦ - feature of the tour was that on eacni of; the' 4wo- trains which carried them they had fitted up at their own cost • * ü ßßPfjf* van aii an exhibition of Aus-

tralian produce, and through these no lets, .than 250,000 people passed at the various railway, stations. At the close (if the: tour through Scotland the party powron the Niagara set out for a tour at their own expense, and they state that in >the sisten Dominion they had just as wonderful a time as they had in' Scotia. fn both countries Australian goods are-now being used more extensively. "We are so enthusiastic over the results of the pilgrimage," said Mt. Gilchrist, " that I am hoping at an early date Id organise another tour, and to make possible the inclusion of a number 6f New Zealanders who have either been born in Scotland or who are descended from Scottish parentage. We feel that a party representing both New Zealand and Australia would be given a grand welcome to Scotland."