WORLD TOUR BY CYCLE
A young Australian, Mr. Erio Malpas, is at present passing through Auckland on the Port Fremantle in the course of a world tour by bicycle. Mr. Malpas, who is 24 years of age, calls himself "the globe trotting troubadour," and has worked his way round the world by singing in the streets. Ho left Melbourne on March 25, 1931, and has now almost completed his trip, after crossing Australia and passing through Ceylon, Arabia, Egypt, Malta, the British Isles, France, Canada, ' the United States and Mexico. Ho has covered 37,000 miles on his bicycle, which is a very old model, and has used 17 sets of tyres. He has undergone some remarkable adventures in the course of his tour and at one stage was lost for 53 hours in Central Aiistralia, near the placo where Mr. Keith Anderson was lost with his aeroplane. Mr. Malpas wears a solar topeo and khaki shorts, winter and summer. After visiting his people in Australia he intends to make a similar tour to China.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 12
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174WORLD TOUR BY CYCLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 12
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