BY CYCLE ROUND THE WORLD

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 2

BY CYCLE ROUND THE WORLD

28-YEAROLD GIRL’S TOUR

EARLY DEPARTURE FROM N.Z. FOR CANADA

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 3.

Now visiting Dunedin is a 28-year-old girl who may be able to prove that one can travel round the world by bicycle and not have a puncture. She is Miss Louise Sutherland. On Friday she will begin the final lap of her round-the-world trip. From 1951 to 195?, Miss Sutherland cycled alone through England, Europe, the Middle East, and India. Before coming to New Zealand, she covered about 7000 miles. Now she plans to cycle across Canada to complete the circuit of the worjd. If the weather permits. Miss Sutherland will leave Dunedin on Friday morning on the first stage of her trip to Auckland, where she will join the Oronsay on November 28. She will go to Vancouver, where she will spend the winter working as a nurse before starting on her tour to the other side of Canada. Later, she hopes to go to New York, and afterwards to her starting point in England.

METHODIST WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP

ANNUAL MEETING OF N.Z. BODY About 60 delegates and observers from many parts of the Dominion attended the annual meeting of the New Zealand • Methodist Women’s Guild Fellowship, held in Christchurch yesterday at the Edgeware Road Methodist Church. Business dealt with was largely domestic, and will be reported to the annual conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, which will open in the Durham Street Methodist Church tomorrow evening. Before the meeting, a Communion service was conducted by the Rev. P. A. Stead. In the evening, a social function was held in the church halt The annual report showed that the sum of about £16,000 had been raised by the fellowship for church work during the year, and that membership now was 4675. The Dominion president (Mr M. Robson) presided, and the president of the North Canterbury fellowship (Mrs A. C. Pratt) welcomed delegates and observers. Dominion officers, who will serve for another year under the fellowship’s rules, are as follows: president, Mrs M. Robson; secretary, Mrs F. M. Cooper and treasurer, Mrs M. E. Jones.