BABY GLOBE-TROTTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 3

BABY GLOBE-TROTTERS

PAR-TRAVELLED CHILDREN.

. A correspondence that has been going on in the South African newspapers as to the .record fop globstrotting of babies^ is referred to in the Glasgow "Herald." A. most remarkable case is that.of a little ono now three years., named Ronald TJtton, the son of: William T. Utton, chief cashier of Messrs. Stewart and Lloyds (South Africa), Limited, of Johannesburg, who covered 31,664 miles before the age of 18 months.

Baby Ronald when only six. month* old went to Durban and back with his brother Desmond, aged 41 years. That was in 1923. In February, 1924, just ,afte'r Ronald was 12 .months, old, he, with his brother Desmond, left Johannesburg with his .parents for a journey round the world *on a holiday trip which' covered; Capetown, Al» bany (Australia),.: .Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane (back to Sydney), Honolulu, iSan F|pncisco, Gra,:tid. Canyon,, Denver, Det^pit,^Niagara Falls, ■ New York, Southampton, London,. Lancaster, .Liverpool, Capetown, Johannesburg. . Neither child suffered in health as the result of this round-the-world trip, the total mileage of which, including extensive travels in ,thiS United ..States, and Canada, to points not mentioned above, was 30,680 mileu. - "

- This; added to the trip down from Johannesburg to Durban and back, made when Ronald was only six months old (492 miles each way), makes the total of 31,664 miles covered before he Was 18 months old, his age when he and his .parents got back to Johannesburg. Another case is that'of Greta and Leonard, the children of Mr. M. Miller, a partner of the New Commercial Trading Company, Johannesburg-. The' children We covered 50,000 and 30,000 miles respectively, the itinerary including visits to London, Manchester, Blackpool, Ostcnd, Berlin,. Brussels, Bouiogne, Paris, Versailles, Milan, Venice, Austria, Switzerland, Czecho-Slo-vikia, and Madeira.' It is believed that these far-travelled children hold the record for South Africa.