EXTENSIVE TRAVELS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22433, 1 June 1936, Page 11

EXTENSIVE TRAVELS

BUSINESS MAN'S JOURNEYS AIR TRIP FROM ENGLAND Rapid travel is an essential in the business activities of Mr. 11. V. Carter, of London, sales manager of Peter Jackson (Overseas), Limited, who arrived from Sydney by the Monterey on Saturday on a brief visit to New Zealand. Mr. Carter, who in eight trips round the world had previously undertaken the longest journeys possible by »iea and by rail, recently Hew 011 the world's longest air route, from England to Australia, by the Empire service. .... More than '20,000 miles by air were completed by Mr. Carter in about five weeks, in the course of his EnglandAustralia journey. He left London in a huge Imperial Airways liner, and after doing various sections of the journey it? five other machines, he completed the long trip in a four-seater craft, a strange contrast to that in which the first stage was flown. He will return from Australia to England by the same service next month, but plans to break his journoy for a week in Malaya. Most parts of the world have been visited by Mr. Carter in the course of 20 years' travelling, and he has an extensive knowledge of distant lands and their peoples. His longest sea journey, half-wav across the world, was from New Zealand to England, and by train lie travelled from Dairen. by way of Moscow, to the Hook of Holland. Had he not been detained in Holland on business, he could have continued on the train by ferry across the Enerlish Channel. The unusual experience of having to take his own food with him on a long journey by rail was encountered by Mr. Carter when he travelled on the transSiberian railway. At the time he undertook the trip it was the regular thing for all passengers to provide their own food, but more recently, he understood, more modern and convenient arrangements had been made. Among Mr. Carter's most interesting travels was his journey across the Syrian Desert by the world-famous motor-coach service operated by the New Zealanders, the Hairn Brothers. The coaches were navigated by the stars across the desert, and were regularly followed by Arabs who, using smaller vehicles, benefited by the expert navigation and engaged in pricecutting for the journey.