Aussie travel scheme bigger this summer

Owing to the large number of Australian students wishing to visit New Zealand, the student travel exchange scheme will this year be on a larger scale than previously.

Three return charter flights will be made, compared with two last summer. The number of students expected to travel is about 150 from both countries.

The first flight will bring 48 students from Australia and return with 48 New Zealand students. The following month a plane will bring a further 48 Australians and return with the first group, in February a third return flight will bring the New Zealanders home and take the second Australian group back.

These changes in the scheme will have two major results. New Zealand students travelling to Australia will have longer away than the Australians will have here; and those organizing the scheme at this end will have twice the number of students to cope with.

In addition to the two plane-loads of Australian students there will doubtless be many arriving by sea. Organization of hospitality, accommodation and jobs for Australian students will have to be far more efficient this summer than it has been, in the past. It will be necessary for college Executives, particularly in Auckland and Wellington, to ensure that a committee of reliable persons should be asked in the near future to begin work on these matters, in the past organization has been very loose and inefficient.