GIRL'S LONELY TREK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 3

GIRL'S LONELY TREK

FROM MELBOURNE TO ADELAIDE

WALKED ALL THE WAY PICKED IT MY POLICE SYDNEY, ■"•!:! March FY: : !•)<■•••<■ ~i-jt. th< exploit 0 i ~ »irl of 15 • '-•!:•:. of a ;:•-•. v h„ v nlUorJ fiom Mrl bourne to Adelaid- , has iK'» been sur--1'.:.. >:d in Australia She reu<h'-'<l Adc laide this week. The child's father v.;,, killed in Fiance in 1016, hi") subsequently her nuithcr died, I lie youngster being caret) for, >u l> setpjcnt tn tin- iloiitli uf Imt mother. b,v relatives in Melbourne.

Even Iho Uepatriatioti Department took ;i kindly interest in her walfarc. and paid lor hci' I"mill at :i cotiM'til. where she reivh rd lier schooling For suiui' reason which refuses lo explain the girl dei ich-cl !o leave Melbourne and walk to Adelaide She started mil and walked first to St. Kild.i. \'. here she had a swim. <>n the beach there sin- met another girl, lo when,i she eoidideel her plan, and the latter. ioi!)jvissinnaie>ly enough, '.cave the ymi11•; iidvi hi urer Iter overcoat. In ailditiuii. her friend of a. few hours supplied her with fooel. -o i hal she slarl ed the real juiirncv fori ifh d against i old wilhojil and within. She went from Melbourne in the dimlion ni" Oeelong. and was given a lift along the road bv a woman motorist. She 1,.--;_'«-d li.'-i- fo id and slept inidei trees as she- passed Cohn . Camperdovn. Warinamhool. and Purl Fairy. Crossing the- South Australian bonier withe, ul mishap she was ah.-edlltely without miinoy so she; took a position for a month at a farmhouse at Millieeiit. At Lueiiulalo. on the last stage to Adelaide, a policeman notieed her down-at-hcel appeal ranee, and he subsequently sent for the women polie-e. who took her in charge, and s.. on lo Aelelaide. Tliey described her as beinii bright and intellige-nt. and well-ediiealid. She- -.'ill had tin- ov.-ivoal haudi-d Imr bv 1.-, friend on Si Ktlda bca, I. Tn the police she confessed that, there were days when slie went without, in,ul, but she was determined in pet to Adelaide, ami even walked a; night, (o ae:i omplish her (ask. In all prolialiility (he State will eare fur her urn il her tela! ives send for her.