WORLD WANDERER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 6

WORLD WANDERER

DESIRE TO SETTLE DOWN IN AUSTRALIA.

After five years of wandering from country to country, working at many different jobs and walking more than 20,000 miles, Herman Roth wants to settle down in Australia. It was in London that he found the-reason for wanting to change his mode of living. She is blonde, London-born and '“typically English,” but Herman will not disclose her name.

“When I left my native Vienna five years ago I was eager to let life take me wherever it would—a true vagabond,” he said recently. “Now • there is nothing I long for so much as marriage and a home of my own. I believe I shall have a better chance in Australia than anwhere else and I am- seeking permission to go there.”

Carrying his possessions in a rucksack, Herman has tramped through the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria, to Turkey, Iran, Syria and Palestine.

“I was a law student in Vienna,” he said. “My parents died and I had no money to continue my studies. I could not get a job. So I packed up a few

possessions and set out on my travels.

“I can speak 12 languages now. I worked in a sugar factory in Turkey, wrote for newspapers in the Balkans, was a farm labourer' in Rumania, worked in the fish trade in Estonia, became a lumberjack in Finland.”