SEEING MANY LANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 11

SEEING MANY LANDS.

YOUNG MAN'S WANDERINGS. I AUSTRALIAN'S SELF-RELIANCE. . ; • LONDON, June 19. - Jaclr Wright,, aged 22; of Sydiley, has arrived in London with 9s in his pocket after three months' adventures in America. |: He is writing a bock, to "be -entitled 'V "Sydney to Sydney, under no • Obliga-* \ , tions." Wright says he always had been accus* tomed to the corafo.is of a :home, except when travelling throughout Australia selling his father's costumes. His friends had frequently chaffed him, sayitg: "I wonder what would happen to .Tack if he hadn't someone to lean on." So he determined to 6ee the world. His father attempted to dissuade him, hnt finally agreed to pay for his passage to Vancouver, and also put a few pounds in his pocket Wright travelled third-class by tha Aorangi to Canada, He get a job with the Hudson Bay Company fur buying, and later waa employed in the lumberirg trade. > He served as an hotel'rouseabout in Seattle and San Francisco, And saved enough money fpr a short trip to Mexico, but later he frequently was "broke." The wanderer worked in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Vancouver, where he was employed escorting' ChWiien,' and ,ot Montreal. He pawned his eyenmg {wit while in Winnipeg. lio -lectured at flldU j.man ton. Ho was a groom in Ontario for a while, and he worked for Ford's in Detiroifc for four., days /screwing nuts on wheels. He was a a Cuaard liner from New York to Liverpool, and made sufficient money to visit Glasgow y f Edinburgh,, Belfast, the Isle of Mas, Bradford, Leeds and Manchester. Then Wright had a week's sightseeing in London looking for a job. He is proud that ho has never cabled home for money. He expects to return to Sydney in a couple of months. '