HIGH ADVENTURE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 414, 22 April 1937, Page 3

HIGH ADVENTURE.

YOUNG AUSTRALIAN. Wanted To See the World. Plans of high adventure by Eric Allen, a Sydney lad, aged 14, have ended prematurely, and after a short ?tay in Auckland he. will return to his home and parents. Eric decided to see something of the world in general, and the United States in particular, so, '\A'i'thout the formality of saying good-bye to his people or acquainting- anybody ehe with his intentions, he boarded the Aorangi at Sydney and set out. When the lad’s presence was discovered on beard a radio message was tent to his parents in Sydney and imm-dia'te arrangements were made both for his passage and return home. When interviewed on board the Aorangi Eric said that he wanted to tee the world, and he. thought that :he best way was to get on a boat going to America. He said that, he r.'as a great reader of books, and he wanted to see things for himself. The youthful Australian wias very popular on board, and although his itinerary has been interrupted lie feels that he has at least had a slice of adventure, and that he will have quite a lot to tell his schoolboy friends when he returns home. The young Australian stayed on board after the Aorangi berthed, and took a very keen interest in the Australian warships in the vicinity. He siaid that he had no fixed ambition, but he ha.d thought of about 50 dif-

ferent things. “I would like to go to sea,” he said, wistfully, “but I suppose I will have to go back to school.” Eric made it quite clear that his interrupted itinerary i s but a pasting pharv of life, and lie intends w'heU he gets a little older to set out again on high adventure, which he trusts will next 'time take him far from his native land.