ADVENTUROUS GIRL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 11

ADVENTUROUS GIRL

MOTORING TO AUSTRALIA, TRIP TO START NEXT MONTH. LONDON, Feb. 13. Eager to emulate Mrs. Keith Miller, of Melbourne, who is flying to Australia, and whom she accompanied in England, Miss Margaret Starr, a slenderly built Australian girl, desires to prove that she can return equally adventurously. She is to participate in'a 20,000-milo motor trip to Australia. Miss .Starr’s companion on the long “jaunt” wil be Captain F. B. Robinson, a former Air Force pilot, and they will use a light Jowctt mo-tor-car. Starting early in March, the adventurers will cross the Continent to Brindisi, and then take ship

to Port Said. From there they will motor by way of' the Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, : the Transvaal and Capetown,' They will then proceed to Perth by steamer and will then motor across the continent to Sydney, via Adelaide and Melbourne. Miss Starr says the trip will be a great adventure. : After leaving Italy the route will be all British throughiut. They expect difficulties over petrol and food supplies in the desert and jungle areas, and will largely' rdly on tinned food.- 'They 'will tako guhs, however, in the hope of shooting for "the pot.-’ - Miss Starr.' Who is a 'relative of the late 'Admiral LoriT Charles Beresford, has travelled extensively in the South Seas. Captain’ Robinson was a prisoner In Germany during the war. ’■ , : ;