ENGLISH SCHOOLBOYS’ TOUR

Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 24

ENGLISH SCHOOLBOYS’ TOUR

INDEPENDENT CLASS-FREE COUNTRY fSPECivi. to the ‘ SrAtt.’] AUCKLAND, Alareh IS. After n glorious holiday of six -weeks in New Zealand the forty-four English s(lioiilboys wlio arrived at, Auckland on lh« lonic on February 1-1: as a party organised by the Public Schools Empire Tour CommiUca returned from the south this morning cm the .Limited. They sail this afternoon for Sydney, where they connect with the AJoreton Hay for England. “ Urn just afraid some of ns shall he rather bores when we get borne, for we shall be full of New Zealand, and want to tell our friends all about it,' remarked one of the boys. “ It’s a jolly line country,’’ sai’d another of tiie visitors. “ What struck us was the absence of grumbling among the people. Everyone .seems happy, unite a contrast with England.” All were agreed on that point. “And then yon have no ela-s distinction.” commented another. “ll seems a good idea to have things that way. Wo did notice, however, that there was a hint of it in Dunedin. Then, too, no one seems to want to take a ti,p, and that’s-a jolly line idea. Nut- (hat one minds giving money lor services rendered, but it’s the idea behind it—independence and all that mri of thing. Wc lonml that spirit llin-iigliont the country.”