TWO TASMANIAN GIRLS CYCLING THROUGH NEW ZEALAND
(P.A.) Wellington, Oct. 1. Two young Tasmanian girls, Miss Elaine Pearce and Miss Miriam Fraser, both of Hobart, walked unexpectedly into what amounted to almost a civic reception at the G.P.O. this morning. When the Mayor IMr. Appleton) and officials were launching the health stamp campaign. The girls, who are touring New Zealand on bicycles, were immediately surrounded by radio broadcasters, Pressmen and photographers and were presented with first day covers and invited to morning tea with the official guests. The g.rls, when they reached Wellington followed their usual course to collect Australian mail by proceeding ‘ hot fot for the main post office." They attracted attention through wearing brief shorts and wind jackets.
They estimate the journey through New Zealand will cost them the modest sum of £6O. Miss Pearce is a trained horticulturist and Miss Fraser is a mothercraft nurse. The objects of the Health Stamp campaign appealed to them both. The trip from Auckland to Wellington, with a week at Rotorua. has taken 17 days, and they said they had been struck by the cheerfulness and patience of families who are compelled to live in motor camps more or less permanently because of the housing shortage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 October 1947, Page 9
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