TOUR CUT SHORT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 3

TOUR CUT SHORT

ROT’S ADVENTURES.

CJHRISTCHUBCH TO AUCKLAND

AUCKLAND, August 18

After enjoying an ucivenMiron and exciting fortnight, during which time he travelled from Christchurch to Greymouth, where ho stowed away on a collier bound tor Auckland, a thirteen-year-old Christchurch boy . will be taken back home by his father. On Monday evening this lad, well-dressed, intelligent little fellow, wont to stay at a city hotel. When he signed the visitors’ register he tendered a 10/- uoj e 111 payment for a room allotted him the licensee thought that be luu arrived in town to await his paienta or other relatives. ihc ’ oy was enthusiastic about Ins commg

visit to Rotorua, and asked questions about the wonders of the thermal regions. Do did say that He had booked accommodation m B°torua. Yesterday th e licensee became suspicious when the boy handed over the sum of £l4 10s lor safe keeping in the hotel safe. yhe I‘icensec communicated with the police, to whom the boy subsequently admitted that bo bad a banking account of his own, and that he had travelled from Christchurch “to see a bit oi the world. prom Christchurch the boy went to Grcymouth. There he crept, cm board ’ a collier, which reached Auckland several days ago. On board ho was popular with the crew who took a kindly interest in him. The youthful traveller made no secret of the fact that he was about Ho proceed to Rotorua. At present he is the guest of the Child Welfare Department in Auckland. To-morrow -morning his father will arrive from Christchurch to take him home again. Whether his parent will bring an instrument of punishment with him is not kiKjpvn. Anyway, his son sincerely hopes that Dad, in his excitement at leaving home on short notice, will have forgotten it.