HOLIDAY IN EAST
Party Of 46 Australians
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 15. Forty-six Australian girls, who for weeks have been practising assiduously with chopsticks, passed through Auckland in the liner Iberia today for a holiday in the Far East. They are members of the Young Australia League, an organisation which has as its motto the words, "Education by travel.” Aged between 14 and 23. the girls for the next few weeks will study the life and culture of Japan, Hong Kong, and Manila. The cost of the trip Is borne by the girls’ parents, many of them well-to-do graziers. The ’ present tour is the fourteenth overseas expedition organised by the league since 1911, when a party of boys were taken around the world. The Iberia party is under the control of the league’s national leader, Mr J. Cotterill, who is accompanied by his wife and a trained nurse.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 3
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149HOLIDAY IN EAST Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 3
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