OFF AGAIN MONDAY
THE TWO WORLD WALKERS WHEELBARROW TRUNDLERS More, than another thousand miles will be added to their present total of 11,899 miles within the next few weeks by Mr. and Mrs. D. J. le Roux, who will have walked round the world pushing their wheel-barrow by the time they walked from Auckland through New Zealand, and then across Australia. They will then take boat for their home in South Africa. A new tyre was fitted to the wheel in Auckland. It is a pneumatic tyre, four covers and five inner-tubes, having been worn out so far. On Monday they will start from Auckland by the Rotorua route. This week they are giving lecturettes at the Princess Theatre each evening, and meeting other South Africans. The walkers have been disappointed in Auckland in one respect. Though they had the city seals of such places as Cape Town, Rome, Paris and Ottawa stamped into their log-book, the best they could secure in Auckland was a mark with a rubber stamp, and the signatures of the Mayor and town clerk.
"It’s the regulations,” was the ex cuse.
The Post Office had refused a record of its Auckland date-stamp.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 13
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197OFF AGAIN MONDAY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 13
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