LONG CAR TRIP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 15

LONG CAR TRIP

' ENGLAND TO N.Z. HONEYMOON COUPLE LIGHT CAR TO BE USED. LONDON, Aug. 20. Just before dawn broke this morning a pretty 2,3-year-old London typist bride slipped into a baby-car and set off with her bridegroom on an adventurous 20,000-mile drive across the world to New Zealand. The bride was Miss Marjono Margrett, who a week ago was busy at her office desk. Her husband, Mr. Ceredig Richards, is a New Zealand writer and photographer, They were married in London on Wednesday of last week. Their jourhey, to be made iti a secondhand 8 h.p, cat that cost £4O, will take them through hundreds of miles of waterless desert arid over many mountain chains. . . Miss Margre-tt's trousseau consists of two frocks, ridihg outfit, a sun-helmet, powder-puff arid lipstick. Nb REVOLVERS

She said: "W& are carrying one or two spare parts* reserve water and petrol supplies—but ho revolvers. "We shall b& sufrbunded by luxury—a large teht> camp beds, sleeping bags ; a even an iron to press my frocks. ' Mr. Riehafa* said: "The journey meant many ffiSnths of serious planning. route will take us, tlifough Belgium, Geim"airy> Austria, Italy, slavia, Bulgaria afld Turkey. "Then wo. shall journey over bullock paths to desert tracks besido the Euphrates, through Syria, and pass .over high mountain chains itito Persia. Ngxt we cross sandy plains to Quetta ahd the steamy valley of the Ganges. "JPrOm Calcutta, 70W ihiles bMf % we shall bear north thrbtigh thfc tea gardens of Assam, along the foothills of the Himalayas, and drop down .into Manipur feudatory state—a tiger-riddeh. jiihglte. "Arriving at Singapore, we shall ship to Western Australia, and follow tho cattle-dro'v>ng route froth Broome to Perth, and so on by desert routes to Melbourne and Sydney, and aci-oss to my homo in New Zealand."