Young Jugoslav’s Voyage.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 4

Young Jugoslav’s Voyage.

In spite of the fact that he cannot speak English, young Petar Godinovich had no difficulty in travelling alone all the way from Jugoslavia. Which just goes to prove that an alert young fellow can find his way to the dining room in Jugoslav as easily as in any other language. Dark-eyed, alert, and only 15 years old, Petar, who arrived by the Wanganella, is the first consignment of a family of six which is being brought to New Zealand by Petar’s father, who works in a quarry at Penrose. When Petar’s two brothers, two sisters and mother join him here in the Dominion, the family, separated for many years, will be reunited. Petar ,a reporter was informed, had been the man in charge of the family’s land away back on the Dalmatian coast after his father left to make his fortune in the Dominion. The youngster had made a creditable job of it, but was glad to come out to the new country. Petar gazed with ecstasy on the city. Here was his new home, and here would lie his life in the future far from the alarms of war in Europe.