A WOMAN'S TOUR
WALKING ADVERTISEMENT
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Miss Esther James, of Auckland, who set put last month to walk from Spirits Bay to Bluff .in the interests of New Zealand-made goods, arrived in Auckland on Wednesday after completing 340 miles of Her tour.
"AVhen I set out on this walk," Miss James L said, "I was eight stone in weight, and after having walked 340 miles, eating only New Zealand-grown f00d,,! now weigh Bst 91b." Every article of clothing worn by Miss James was made in New Zealand. Her-shoes, which she has worn all the way from Spirits Bay to Auckland, have only now shown slight signs of wear in the: toes. One pair of stockings lasted her over a distance of 100 miles before a slight hole appeared in the toe; of "ladders" thero was no sign. ' ■ • '
"This is about a third of my journey completed," sho said, "and I sin? cerely hope that more people will patronise the goods produced' by their own country, and thus make my journey not in. vain. >>■'■■■
Miss 'James is obtaining first-hand [knowledge of how Now/Zealand's primary products are produced, and she intends next year to , walk through England advertising the Dominion's primary "products.. ,
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Evening Post, Issue 19, 23 January 1932, Page 13
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209A WOMAN'S TOUR Evening Post, Issue 19, 23 January 1932, Page 13
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