WALKING TOUR ROUND THE WORLD.
i g' ® i (BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) < Ghrlstchurch, June 20. ] , Mr. W. Wilson left' Cathedral Square ; shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon on a , ; walking tour round the world, and 'ho was 1 farewelled by a large crowd of friends and 1 others who had assembled to witness the departure. ' Mr. Wilson expects to be away foY at least three years, His itinerary will be from Christchurch to the Bluff, then over to Melbourne, across the Australian Continent to Fremantle, then on to Colombo, through'lndia, and across Asia Minor to ; Naples. lij-om Naples he sails for Eng- , land, and makes extensive tours through the British Isles, afterwards leaving Queenstown for New York. He then crosses the J American continent to Vancouver, and from Vancouver sails for Auckland; and thence , back to ' Christchurch. Mr. Wilson called on the Mayor this, morning, and was given •, a certificate'under the city Seal that he left, ! Christchurch with no money in his pocket, this being done owing to the fact that one ® of the conditions of the tour is that lio must ' start penniless. j
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 230, 22 June 1908, Page 2
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