WALK ROUND THE WORLD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 2

WALK ROUND THE WORLD.

NEn. ZEALANDER'S TOUR FOR A I £2000 WAGER. j The following "story" is toOd in th© London Daily Mail: — A young New Zealander, Mr Hairy Carter, who left« Wellington, New Zealand, on January 21, 1902, on a walking tour round the world, has had some curious experiences. He has visited nearly every country, with the exception of Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark, and when he has completed his tour he will Teceive £2000. H© must walk the whole way, and is prohibited from joining any society from which he might receive assistance. He can neither beg, borrow, nor steal. | He was allowed fivepemce, with, whicli he 1 bought fouT copies of the Wellington Poet and a packet of pins: Having made a costume with these materials he explained to the people standing by the object of his tow, and collected sufficient money to buy clothes. He has frequently ap-. peared in tnea>tane6, and the audiences hava contributed to his expenses. Twice in Paraguay he was Bhot at, in Mexico he was laid up witE fever, in Russia, and Turkey he wa6 frequently arrested as a spy. He walks about forty miles a day, and has closely examined the educational systems in the different countries. He forwards reports every day to a inumber of New Zealand journals. He is now wearing his twenty-eighth pair of boots. He says that the City of London Police amd the Royal Irish Constabulary in County Galway are the fine&Mooking men he has seen in the course of hie travels.