TOUR IN UNITED STATES

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 162, 24 March 1939, Page 4

TOUR IN UNITED STATES

MISS ROXA STEPHENSON GISBORNE GIRL’S RETURN *' [ .'.Before living the United; States on her. return: to New Zealand (Miss Ilona' Stephensofi, accompanied by an Eugy lish girl, Miss Phyllis Goljance, London. enjoyed a most delightful tour in the southern Strifes after Christ-' mas. s'. i The Gisborne gi|£ and? her friend " had been loaned afFcar for the trip, and, taking the wheel, they ewe red! 4000 miles in 10 days, driving from New York, to Miami and back through Tennessee and Georgia. In Florida they ' found that 150 oranges could be purchased for 4s, and orange juice was dispensed free in some plaefjs. Miss Stephenson said Miami Beach was a vast luxury playground with numerous huge hotels. She mentioned that the people in the southern States were very ■much ...more -favourable to the Brithrall than the inhabitants of New York land the northern States, j* . v ... and were very friendly to the two young motorists. In all, eight States were visited, t day driving. The roads, Miss Stepli- f enson said, were marvellous, and encouraged a driver to speeds,,, and on the return trip from''Knoxville to New York, a distance of 750 miles was covered -in 20 hours—all