The Adventures of Johnny van Bart
h fist cat VAN BART was only 12 years old when he ran away from Hobart and came to New Zealand. That was 100 years ago. As a matter of fact, van Bart wasn’t Johnny’s real name. He was born Johnny Forbes, but he had to have another name when he left home, so he took "van" from van Diemen’s Land, as Tasmania was called, and "Bart" from Hobart, its capital.
Johnny worked in Sunford’s Flour Mill with his mother, who had come to Tasmania as a convict, though she had never committed any crime. Old Sunford’s daughter, Emily, and Johnny were great friends, and it was an escapade "in which these two were involved that led to Johnny’s running away, How it happened Cecil and Celia Manson tell in the first episode of their 13-part serial
story for children, The Adventures of Johnny van Bart, which (read by Bryan O’Brien) is to be heard from Commercial stations of the NZBS. In later episodes young listeners will hear of Johnny’s many adventures in New Zealand. Already playing from 2ZA at 5.30 p.m. on Sundays, it will start from 1ZB on August 2 at 5.45 p.m., and later will be heard as a 5.30 p.m. Sunday children’s programme from _ other ZB stations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 14
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217The Adventures of Johnny van Bart New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 14
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