TRAMPING THE WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5336, 8 October 1928, Page 2

TRAMPING THE WORLD.

AMEBIC AN STUDENT ON TOUR. NOT A'PENNY ON LAND TRAVEL. Two unusu’j methods of travelling round the world have beep Adopted recently. It is on record that- Franz Dzia.dek has 'started on a “Hindenburg sprint round the world,” while there arrived in Wellington last week, and lat.er departed fo,r Auckland, John Marshall, a Chicago University graduate; who stated’ to a “Dominion!’ reporter tha,t he was traversing the globe “without 'spending a penny on; land transport.” Starting fr.Cjin Chicago in January laht, Marshall, according to his/ statement, travelled across ,to- ithe western shores of the United States, and thence by boat to Honolulu,, Hawaii, Kauai, over, to Yokohama, back, and qn, to New Zealand. He plapsi ,tq continue to Australia from Auckland in tivo days’ time, go op to Singapore, India, through China, and acr.cjsis Si-i beria to Europe. This trip is estimated to take in all 21 months. As he go.es (he keeps! a notebook /fully posted, and intend'-:/to write a, book dn his travel's. “You see, 1 don’t, spend a penny on land transport,” he explained. “I u*e the roads and get lift's here andthare. That is why 1 am anxious, to get away now, because I thought iny bqat left Wellington, but I find it gOjes from Auckland in two, days. That mean's I’ll /have to travel on into the nig, hL The greatest distance I cohered in Nqw Zealand was 200 niilesi—Napier, to Wellington. But 1. got a lot of help On .the way. “So far I’ve dope 700 miles ill the North Island, and it cost me 4s 6d.' But I a.m -|orry t.hqre was a bfljd extravagance in that. 'Wheii) 1 was a|t RqfOriia 1 had 1 one of those baths, and It colt me is 6d. In td\c SO(Uth Island I spent 2s 6d.” With his voluminous/ grey golf tWeqds and light over jacket, surmounted by a shock of fair hair, he loft optimistically for the last stage of his journey in New' Zealand'.