Much More Hitch Than Hike In City Nurses' N.I Tour .
Having done much more hitch than hike on a hitch-hiking tour of the North Island, two nurses from a big city hospital breezed into the Beacon office yesterday morning to see how we country hicks- produce a newspaper and to tell us that hitch-hiking is a wonderful way of seeing the country on the cheap.'" . , True, it is. If you happen to be young, attractively suntanned, just as attractively feminine and equipped with an engaging smile that - teams up with the waggled thumb to get the right results. They said they found it wasn’t much use thumbing rides with cars driven by women or having women, passengers. Fact probably is that we girls don’t like .competition. These two frankly admitted that they don’t particularly like walking, either. But why \ '\k, when you’re equipped with—but we said all that just now. Anyway, here’s the that has taken them close on 1100 miles since they went on “sick leave” from their hospital a few weeks back. You w;alk a little way, and you get hot. When you start to sweat (sorry; we girls “perspire”) you just sit. There’s sure to be a susceptible "fellow with a vacant seat in his car. . But, let there be no misunder-;, standing. New Zealand’s roads ; boast no “wolves.” This party has been- wholly enjoyable and not spoiled by one unpleasant incident. Hospitality has matched the courtesy of the motorists. In three weeks, the two .girls bought their board once only—at a Government controlled hostel at Waitomo. They found this East Coast of ours the most overwhelmingly hospitable ' district they have ever known —particularly from Gisborne to Hicks Bay and around the Cape to Whakatane. , They’re on their way home now, having seen much of the Waikato, Taranaki, Wellington, ManaWatu, Hawkes Bay, Poverty Bay and East Coast districts.
And, get this .straight: On this trip they have no’names. Remember what we ■ said about leave”?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 34, 17 December 1948, Page 5
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