100-Mile Walk With Small Baby
AUCKLAND, Fri. (P.A.)—A 100-mile walk, carrying her month-old baby, from Burma to the Indian border, before the advancing Japanese in 1942, was made by Mrs H. Walden, who, with her husband, formerly a district forest officer in Burma, arrived in the vessel Marine Phoenix today to live in New Zealand. Mrs Walden said she travelled from the Upper Chindwin district of Burma with a number of Indian women. She had little food aifd only a few small belongings.
The party ate mostly rice on the trip, which took a month and a half. "We think we will be happy in New Zealand,” she said.
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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 3
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