“Hitch-hiking,” a method of travel said to be popular in America, is not without exponents in New Zealand. A young man from the North Island, visiting his parents in Balclutha, announced that he intended proceeding next day to a place some 20 miles beyond Invercargill. Early in the morning he set out on foot and reached his destination safely. Questioned on his return some days later, he said he had had to walk only a few miles, thanks to the lifts he received from passing motorists. On the way south he rode in six different cars in all, but coming back he was for most of the journey a non-paying passenger in one vehicle which happened to be coming north.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 7
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