SCHOOLBOYS’ ESCAPADE
ENDED BY RAINSTORM. George Owen, Gerald Waters, Douglas Cooper and Herbert Silverthorne, 13 and 14 years of age, carrying kit, including bathing costumes, walked from school, eight miles to Gidea Park, where they persuaded a motorist to drive them to Southend (states a. London message). They slept, without food or money, on a bench near the bandstand. A howling rainstorm disheartened them, and they reported themselves to the police in the morning. The matron dried their clothes and fed them to repletion on sausages and mash. She chuckled over their diary, which contained a list of requisites for the voyage, which the lads intended to make by motor boat to France, afterwards hoping to secure a yacht to take them to an uncle living in Australia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 22, 21 December 1929, Page 11
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128SCHOOLBOYS’ ESCAPADE Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 22, 21 December 1929, Page 11
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