ELEVEN TRIPS ROUND THE WORLD

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 11

ELEVEN TRIPS ROUND THE WORLD

Eighty-year-old Farmer

BACK IN NEW ZEALAND FOR DURATION OF WAR

After completing his eleventh trip round the world, Mr. James Lobb, au 80-year-ohl native of Padstow, Cornwall, and formerly a farmer at Lawrence, Central Otago, is visiting Wellington. Mr. Lobb first arrived in New Zealand in 1883, taking up work as a farm manager at a wage of £1 a week. He became the oWner of a farm in Central Otago, which he sold in 1919, when he retired. On the death of his wife he found himself alone and a desire to visit hig friends sent him off on a trip round the world. He made two trips overseas before he retired and has made nine since then. He has visited the South Island, and after spending some time in Wellington will visit Feilding, Ilawera, New Plymouth and Auckland. He has been in the Dominion since November and will not go overseas again while the war continues.

Luck might- enter into a man’s life, he said in an Interview, but luck meant at 6 o’clock in the morning; it meant living on a shilling a day if one earned two. He said he was not wealthy, but he found it cheaper and more pleasant to spend his time travelling than it would Ire to set up housekeeping again. In his travels round the world he has covered approximately 250,000 miles. He hag been to every part of the world exfiept some parts of Europe, Russia and the Far East.