EDUCATION BY TRAVEL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5329, 21 September 1928, Page 3

EDUCATION BY TRAVEL.

OPPORTUNITY FOR N.Z. BOYS. TOUR OF AMERICA. A proposal of interest to New Zealand parents has been launched by an organisation in Australia, known as “The Young Australia League.” One of the League’s objects is “Education by Travel,” an|d about every three years groups of boys are formed to tour overseas. About, two months ago the League decided that the itinyaxy for their next tour would embrace the United States and Canada, and that arrangements would be made to include a quota of 30 New Zealand boys in the contingent. A request was made in Australia for applicatiops for- 100 boys from the Commonwealth, and within a few weeks the full nu;mber of vacancies had been applied for. In planning to include a group of New Zealand boys the League feels that it is helping to keep alive the spirit of Arizac which was created during the war. It is realised that when the contingent travels through the 4 -,United States and, Canada there will be many receptions by big organisations, and such receptions will be given in memory of the. glorious achievements o,f the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the world war. The League feels, therefore, that a quota of New Zealand boys should be included. Hitherto the work of the League lias been confined to, Australian boys, a.nd by including a group of New Zealanders the League will realise the long-cherished dream of extending thq ideas cjf the organisation to other parts of .the, Empire. Boys travelling from New Zealand and Australia in the same contingent throughout Canada will be. an event of Imperia,! significance, and the comradeship which would be developed, between the boys of the two Dominions would be a sign to the .world that the friendship of the Dominion' and the Commonwealh ha,d been strengthened as a result, of the joint sacrifices made a;t Gallipoli during the war. The proposal is for the boys to leave Wellington on December 31, and, after calling at Raratenga and Tahiti, the first lang stop w"ll be San Francisco. The Itinerary will be shaped approximately as follows : — San Francisco tq Losi Angeles, with subsidiary trips to, Pasadena,, Long Beach, and Other Californian points; thence to Grand Canon of Arizona, to El Paso (New Mexico), 'oq| tq San An.tonio, and New Orleans ;*to Birmingham, taking in Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, and. Washington (the Canberra of the United Statesi). After Washington, New York; thence .to Montreal, Quebec, aqd Ottawa (the Dominion’s capital),*on to Toronto, down to Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago. From ’ Chicago, Canadian territory would again be traversed, taking in the points between Winnipeg, Banff, anfd Vancouver. The tour is open to> boys throughout New Zealand betweejn the ages of 14 and 17 years, a.nd the total cost of the tour for New Zealand boys is £lB5, which includes fares, travelling expenses, laundry, and all other con-, tingencies. The tour, will be under the personal direction of the founder and hop. director of the League, Mr J. J. Simons, who. has led the three overseas tours and who has at different times been at. .the head df boys’ touring parties embracing in all 7000 ' boys. Applications for. full details in copnection with the proposal may be sent ta Mr Jqhni Tucker, care of the offices of the Union Steamship Co. of Ne.-w Zealand at Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch; In order tq give parents in New Zealand a.n opportunity of talking over the proposal, an officer of the League, Mr John Tucker, will make a tour through the Dominion during, Octqber and November. He will arrive at Wellington on September 25.