Builder Leaving On South American Trip

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 12

Builder Leaving On South American Trip

A Christchurch builder, Mr F. M. Stewart, of Murray Aynsley Hill, yesterday said that rather than be another unemployed builder in the city, he planned to take his wife and two children on a year’s tour of South America

“If I am going to be unemployed because the building trade is quiet, I may as well have a holiday,” he said. Mr Stewart, who is 52, plans to leave Christchurch for Los Angeles on August 24, on the first-stage of his tour. In the United States he hopes to buy some kind of mobile caravan before leaving with his family for Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, across the Andes to the Argentine, and up to Brazil. He plans to go with his family by boat up the Amazon and in another boat up the Ri) Negros. Mr Stewart said that he had no idea what the trip would cost him, but he hoped to earn some money by doing some agency work to earn overseas exchange. When be had completed the South American tour with his family they would tackle the Pan American route through Central American countries and back to the United States. Later, they would travel to Great Britain before driving home to New Zealand over-

land via Turkey, Iran, India and Singapore. He said that a man might as well be gainfully occupied when there was a recession in the local building trade. *Tve always wanted to do this trip, and this looks like the opportunity,” he said. “My two children are still at primary school so now is the time to do it. before they start secondary school. Mr Stewart said he hoped that by the time he and his family returned to Christchurch the building trade would be buoyant again. “It should be all right by the time when we get back,” he said.