CHILD TRAVEL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 2

CHILD TRAVEL.

HOLIDAY INVASION. Tours to Continent. London, March 27. This week 6000 school children will begin the biggest holiday invasion of the Con;inent ever known in the history of English schools. They will leave- London in groups of between 20 and 700 to walk, climb or tour by bicycle, coach or train in more than 10 different lands. In these parties, which have been organised by the School Journey Association, a voluntary body of teachers, boys and girls from the- public schools will “join up” at Victoria Station with children from elementary, commercial and technical schools. On Thursday 700 children 'Will leave Dover on a pioneer trip of its kind to Germany. Nine days’ holiday will cost them £4/15/- each. Every hotel in Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein will be filled during Easter with English children. School children from Coblenz —one Cor every five children—will act as guides and interpreters, and they will rek round the neighbouring country ?nd journey down the Rhine together. More than 650 children and 100 adults will leave London on Easter Monday for France. They will stay n hotels and schools in Paris, and the' city authorities have arran.ged two monster tea parties at which the English school children will be joined by French school children.