SEEING MANY LANDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19527, 9 July 1925, Page 7

SEEING MANY LANDS

YOUNG MAN’S WANDERINGS,

AUSTRALIAN’S SELF-RELIANCE

LONDON, June 19,

Jack Wright, aged 22, of Sydney, has arrived in London with 9s in bis pocket after three months’ adventures in America. Ho is writing a book, to be entitled “Sydney to Sydney, under no Obligations.” Wright says he always had been accustomed to the comforts of a home, except when travelling throughout Australia selling his i father s costumes. His friends had frequently chaffed him, saying: I wonder what would happen to Jock if he hadn’t someone to lean on.” So he determined to see the world. His father attempted to dissuade him, but finally agreed to pay for his passage to Vancouver, and also put a few pounds in his travelled third-class by the Aorangi to Canada. He gob a job with the Hudson Bay Company fur buying, and later was employed in the lumbering trade. He served as an hotel rouseabout in Seattle and San Francisco, and saved enough money for 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 Chinamen, and at Montreal. He pawned his evening suit while in Winnipeg. He lectured at Ed moaton. He was a groom in Ontario for a while, and he worked for Fords in Detroit for four days screwing nuts on wheels. He was a steward on a Cunard liner from New York to Liverpool, and made sufficient money to visit Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, the Isle oi Man, Bradford, Leeds and Manchester. Then Wright had a week’s sightseeing in London looking for a job. He is proud that he has never cabled home for money. He expects to return to Sydney in a couple of months.