ON TRECK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 2

ON TRECK

WOMEN' S ADVENTURES | IN SEARCH QF i WORK. . j BRISBANE. ^Jj Three days of furtive travel aboaiS^9 a freight train, part of the time in the unexpected company of courteous tramps, was the most yivid adventufe of two women who left Rrisbane, practically penniless, about a fortnight ago, to search for work in . Sydney. One qf- them, Mrs. Lily Howell, a widow, who has a 12-year-old son*, had previously been unable to ohtain employment bere, and, believing that conditions were brighter in Brisbane, set out on a journey to the north, which ended in bitter disappointment. " ' In Brishane she met with Rpsip '■ Lloyd, who was in a similar plight, and they agreed to walk or travel tp Sydney by any method that pre- ' sented itself. They tramped great distances with their swags, were given lifts qn lorries, spent one night at a farmhouse, and next morm'ng milkeji the cows, and eventually crept into a railway truck, only to discover that they were among tramps, who, however, proved to be gallant companions. Before each station was reaehed the women had to make a risky leap from the truqk, through fear "of discovery, and would join it again when danger of capture was past, Their most unhappy experience was at Newcastle, where their swags were stolen. Now they have reaehed Sydney, with their shoes ivorn through," But still with a cheerful outlook pn Jife.