MUCH-TRAVELLED NEW ZEALANDER
HAS COVERED 800,000 MILES. HAS ALREADY COVERED 40,000 MILES THIS YEAR. United Press Association —By ’Electric Toicgraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 11.40 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 16. Dr. Malcolm MacLaren, a Now Zealand mining geologist and engineer, has returned after a three months’ mining research expedition in Bolivia on bellalf of a London group. He has now completed 800,000 miles of travel in the course of his work and claims to be the second most travelled man in the world. He says the record is held by Mr. J. H. Curie, another mining engineer, who ha 3 passed the million miles mark. Dr. MacLaren, who in his early days was connected with the New Zealand School of Mines, lias been travelling for 30 years and there is hardly a part of the world he has not visited. Already he has covered 40,000 miles this year.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6991, 17 August 1929, Page 5
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