BOYS TO TOUR AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 13

BOYS TO TOUR AMERICA

PARTY BEING FORMED MR. COATES’S APPROVAL Press Association WELLINGTON, Sunday. Tile New Zealand representative of tile Young Australia League, Mr. John Tucker, will tour the Dominion to form a company of 30 New Zealand boys to join the Australian party, who will bo touring Canada and the United States for six months next year. The Prime Minister has expressed his approval of the commingling of the hoys of the Common wealth and tho Dominion. Ho considered great benefits were possible from such a tour.

The boys are to retain their identitv throughout, carrying the Dominion flags and wearing their own emblems, and that, alternately with their brother Australians, they shall lead the march. By speeches at all college and university functions, publicity among the youth of the American continent will be secured. The founder and director of the organisation, Mr. J. J. Simons, will be in command of the party. The party will be received by the President at White House. They will then be received by the Prime Minister of Canada. They will leave "Wellington by the Makura on December 31, and will return to Auckland by the Aorangi on June 17.

Mr. Tucker will travel through both the islands, visiting Palmerston North first, on October 7, and then the other principal towns, and -n November will visit the South Island.