N.Z. BOY NOW IN WALES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28489, 20 January 1958, Page 9

N.Z. BOY NOW IN WALES

14,000-Mile Trip “To School”

(Rec. 11 p.m.l LONDON. Jan. 19. Peter Morris, the New Zealand schoolboy, whose 14.000-mile trip across the world has been a nightmare to his parents, his Prime Minister and his High Commissioner, has ended his great adventure, the "Sunday Dispatch” reported today. ' His 14,000-mile "walk to school'* began on October 1 last year when his grandmother, Mrs Edna Bishop, met him at a bus stop near his home in Auckland and suggested a holiday. Now it was over and Peter would go to school tomorrow in Monmouth, Wales, in the care ot his father’s parents. The newspaper quoted Peter as saying: "It was all jolly good tun.” He said that his grandmother took him to a hotel at Takapuna where new clothes were ready. They then went to Whenuapai airport by taxi and flew to Sydnejr. He admitted casually that be - bad been airsick across the Tasman and seasick across the Greet Australian Bight Ship to Dunkirk From Perth, the couple/took a ship to Dunkirk and drove to Calais by taxi. ■ They went to London by way of Folkestone Meanwhile, Peter's parents were sending frantic cables to friends in Australis snd Britain. His father, Mr Colin Morris, heard that Mrs Bishop had talked of taking Peter to Australia. As the days became weeks he appealed to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, and the Governor-General. But police in countries along the route had been just too late. In London, Peter and his grandmother were met by solicitors and Scotland Yard detectives. They were told that they must stay put until the legal tangle was sorted out, the "Sunday Dispatch" said. Last week, in a solicitor's office. Peter was handed over to his grandfather, Mr Thomas Morris, of Monmouth, and will stay with him until ne sails back to New Zealand in February.