WORKING HER WAY ROUND WORLD

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26025, 31 January 1950, Page 2

WORKING HER WAY ROUND WORLD

CALIFORNIAN GIRL IN NEW ZEALAND

After filling positions as a hotel receptionist in Alaska, a saxophonist in a Honolulu dance band, a night club entertainer in Japan, a spare hand in a Filipino movie company, an attendant in a Cairns milk bar, and a secretary in Sydney, a young Californian teacher, Miss Mildred Fluck, has come to New Zealand. Miss Fluck, who visited the Southern Lakes and the Hermitage, Mount Cook, recently, will leave New Zealand for England in March.

“You don’t need a fortune to see the world,” she said. “In this work-as-you-go way of travelling you see more and make, more friends than most tourists do in a lifetime of travel.”

Her first journey, after taking a teacher’s degree in business education at university, was to Juneau, Alaska, where for two years she worked as a secretary at the Baronof, a new hotel which has all modern appointments, including its own night club. Since then she has visited many countries. On her arrival in New Zealand Miss Fluck, who took a temporary position in an Auckland office, has worked her way through the North and South Islands.

She hopes to spend the spring apd summer cycling through England and Scotland, and then in Norway and Sweden. She will' stay at youth hostels. She is making a film and photographic record of her travels, and plans to lecture when she returns to the United States.