STUDENT TOURIST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17740, 29 March 1932, Page 10

STUDENT TOURIST

“HITCH-HIKING” THE WORLD

An American student, Mr. Arthur Cone, of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., who has travelled more than 33,000 miles, and lias "hitchhiked” in the United States. Canada, and Hawaiian Island, Alaska, New Guinea, Australia, and is now touring New Zealand, said, in a recent address to Canterbury University students, that “hitch-hiking” was the American term used to denote walking intermixed with riding in motor cars when the opportunity arose. Ho had started from Philadelphia with 30 dollars (£0 at par) in his pocket, and hoped to hitch-hike round the world. He visited Chicago, the second largest city in the States, and passed on to Yellowstone National Park.

He had travelled north to Canada, where he obtained work on a ship bound for Alaska. In Alaska he had worked in the bush, on river steamers, with the mounted police and on many other adventurous jobs. On returning to the States, he had obtained a position on the s.s, Ventura bound for Sydney. After travelling extensively in Australia and Hobart, he had arrived in New Zealand, which he thought a remarkable country. “I intend to see the rest of the world,”'said Mr. Cone, "and this will take six years, after which I will lecture in the States for four years.” Mr. Cone then proposes to purchase an auxiliary yacht on whicli he will tour the world again, writing as he travels.