Seeing The World With £lso For Fares
A round-the-world cruise of 50,000 miles in freighters is being done by Mr. W. Hyman, 25, a Rover Scout from Johannesburg, now in Sydney. He arrived on the Troja from Capetown, on the first stage of 8000 miles. Mr. Hyman, who is a clerk in a stockbroker’s office, aims to visit every country in the world except South America by hiking and in freighters, at a cost of £ 150 for passage money. “I And I have missed Tasmania from my schedule, and will have to go back there after visiting New Zealand,” he said. After Now Zealand and Australia, Mr. Hyman will go to the Dutch East Indies. Siam, and the Far East, ship to Honolulu from Shanghai, after a visit to the war front, then to San Francisco, and across America by car. He will go to England from New York, hike a hundred miles and spend a couple of months on the continent. He expects his trip to take from
a year to eighteen months. ‘Living on ships and seeing the world is much cheaper than living in Jo’burg, I can tell you,” he said.
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Northern Advocate, 26 May 1938, Page 8
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