STUDENTS ON TOUR.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 5

STUDENTS ON TOUR.

' VISITS TiO DOMINIONS. FORTNIGHT IN NEW ZEALAND. vXs (j: . r , LONDON, Feb. 28. A large number of applications bas been received by the Students' Overseas Travel Committee for the first of the proposed toiirs of the Dominions. This committee was formed i'n collaboration with the National Union of Students and is planning to send round the yvorld public school and uriiversity men contemplating the possibility of settlement in the Dominions. It ' is proposed that the first party should leave London at the beginning of April, either via the Cape of Good Hope or thei Suez Canal, for Fj*emantle. About six weeks will . be spent in Australia, a fortnight in New Zealand, and six weeks in Canada, the party returning to England in time for the beginning of the autumn "university term. The prigc of the round-the-world tour is 27§%ns., hut it is hoped that this will be substantially reduced by concessions on the steamships and railways. Applicants may also arrange for a journey to Australia only or a% journey to Australia and New Zealand. Any balance, after paying all expenses, is to be divided among the mexribers of the party pro rata in accordance' with their payments, arid any who decide to settle at any point in the journey will be granted a refund in respect to that part of the journey which is not taken. The tour will be personally conducted by Colonel W. S. Fergusson, C.M.G. (late King's Dragoon Guards), of the slaff of Sir Henry Lunn's organisation. Mr L. S. Amery,.,* Secretary of State for the Dominions, is the hon. president of the committee, and the vice-presidents include the Archbishop and Prime Minister of New Zealand. Colonel Fergusson interviewed the New Zealand Prime Minister while he was in London. Afterwards Mr Coates sent the following letter: — "My Dear Colonel Fergusson." — "I am very pleased to learn of the proposal which has ' been formulated for organising visits of university and public school men to various portions of oqr Empire. I am confident tbat such tours will alford splendid opportunities of acquiring first-hand knowledge of the Empire and of facilitating still further, I hope, the settlement of suitable men in our oversea countries. Speaking on behalf of New Zealand, I can assure you that a very hearty welcome will be extended to any parties who visit the Dominion under this scheme, and we shall he glad to see that an opportunity is afforded for acquiring full information regarding our country."