ROUND THE WORLD BY CAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 264, 7 November 1936, Page 7

ROUND THE WORLD BY CAR

MISS ALOHA BAKER IN WANGANUI T 5 COUNTRIES VISITED Bedecked with some 60 badges from the countries of the world a Ford V 8 driven by Miss Aloha Baker is making a tour of New Zealand as part ol a world trip. Miss Baker, accompanied by Mr, Walter Baker, has I visited 72 countries in ten years. They will arrive in Wanganui on Wednesday staying two days, after which I they will travel to Stratford. Miss Baker began her world travels at the age of 14 years and these have taken her hundreds of thousands of miles as

gestation of scientific measures shall be shortened. New Zealand recognises that “every day must be moving day!" if she is to keep abreast of modern mental hygiene preventive and curative methods.—Yours as ever,

lan interpreter, writer, photographer I and radio lecturer. She speaks Gei - man, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese fluently, and can make herself understood in Polish, Czech, Roumanian. Arabic, Hindustani and several native dialects. It was in South America that Miss I Baker had one of her most perilous 1 adventures. She was one of a party which spent months in the Matto Grosso in 1931 searching for traces of , Colonel Fawcett who had disappeared ' there five years earlier. In Siberia Miss Baker was made an honorary colonel of the Soviet Army. The FordVB car is an ivory-coloured tourer fitted wilh central heating and I electric fan system, a hot water and special lighting display, and sleeping accommodation. A unique feature is 1 1 a strip of wood around the car bear- | Ing the metal badges of 65 countries. I Of these 61 are badges of automobile j clubs and others were specially made I because of the countries (including Soviet Russia) had no automobile 11 clubs. The greetings on the badges i are In Ihe national tongues of the I re«oective countries. I Three cars have been used, so far. I In their great round the world adventure. The first, a Ford model T, carried them 380.000 miles; the second, a Ford model A, carried them 180.000 m'des and the present car a Ford V 8 has taken them 19.000 miles b» Asia, and 4000 miles in Australia. Alt cars, said Miss Baker, in an interview, had given excellent service