WORLD TOUR
iIEW ZEALANDERS’ EXPERIENCE. f RETURN TO SYDNEY. TRIP FULL OF ADVENTURE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 15, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 15. Having motored 22,000 miles in the course of their journey round the world, Mr Hector MacQuarrio and Mr F. Matthews, the New Zealanders, returned to-day to Sydney, which they left on May 30 of last year. It was a trip full of adventure. It had hardly began when they were shipwrecked in mid-ocean—the Tahiti disaster. They were the victims of a drunken driver in “dry” America; they were fired at by Turkish soldiers, and were charged by an infuriated camel and an elephant in India. Mr MacQuarrie’s greatest impression of the trip is:— “The British Empire is a very living and a very efficient thing.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 218, 15 August 1931, Page 7
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