VISIT TO CANADA
BOYS FROM WAITAKI SCHOOL. PARTY OF TWENTY INVITED. By Telegraph—Press Association.) OAMARU, June 2. The rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School. Mr Frank Milner, has received from the Canadian National Council of Education, through its executive secretary, Major F. Ney, M.C., an invitation to send a party of 20 boys with a master to Canada as guests of the council.
The object of the projected trip is participation in the Empire Youth Movement initiated in Coronation year by the Canadian council. Last year Canada sent 200 representative secondary school pupils to a Westminster Abbey service and an Albert Hall rally afterward as guest of British schools. This year 150 British and Canadian secondary school pupils will tour Canada, and a great camp under expert guidance will be held in August at Banff, in the Rockies. The Waitaki party will sail by the Aorangi from Auckland on July 12 and will return from Vancouver by the Niagara, sailing on August 31. The trip has the approval of the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser. The boys wil have a full programme of sport, social fraternisation and camping life in Canada.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 6
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193VISIT TO CANADA Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 6
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