To New Zealand by Motor Cycle

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 18 August 1927, Page 8

To New Zealand by Motor Cycle

Cable messages from Sourabaya announce that Captain Malins and Captain Oliver who left London last December for a tour of the world on O.E.C. Temple Motor Cycles, have reached J#va and were expected to arrive in Brisbane on or about August 3rd, and at Ivlelbourne on August 23rd. After Melbourne they will proceed to Tasmania (Launceston), arriving there on 30th August. They are scheduled to reach Invercargill (New Zealand) on Bth September, after which their New Zealand itinerary is: Dunedin due 13th September; Christchurch, due 19th Sepleie ber; Blenheim due 26th September: Hastings, duo sth October; Cam bridge, due 14tli October.

Leaving New Zealand from Auckland, they will embark for San Francisco and thence across U.S.A, and Canada en route for England. With the exception of the sea passages, the journey is being made entirely on motor cycles using “Shell” Motor Spirit and Oil. Many of Captain Malms’ friends in England have laid a wager over his not returning to England within one year after doing this tour, but (j'liptain Malins said he was prepared to take a bet that- lie would arrive in England a day before Christinas at an appointed time outside the Marble Arch in London.