ECCENTRIC TOURISTS.
WALKING ROUND THE WORLD. ' AUCKLAND, August 14. Interesting personalities on the Aorangi are Dfr and Dlts Dan J. Le Roux, who, since the last day of 1922, have been walking around the world with a wheelbarrow. They are South Africans, and have walked through South Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Egypt-, Italy. Switzerland, and other parts of Europe. Then they went to Canada, and have now crossed the Pacific. They carry a 1621 b kit with their belongings in the wheelbarrow, which they push ahead of them in their walks. All the journev has been on foot except where sea travel has been necessary.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 53
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105ECCENTRIC TOURISTS. Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 53
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