HIGH ADVENTURE
YOUTHFUL STOWAWAY ON BOARD AORANGI ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, this day. With thoughts of high adventure, Eric Allen, aged 14, boarded the Aorangi at Sydney. When he was discovered at sea a radio message was sent to his parents at Sydney and immediate arrangements were made for payment of his passage to Auckland and return. The young Australian had a good time aboard and feels that at leas,t he had a slice of adventure which he hopes to resume some time in the future. When interviewed yesterday morning on board the Aorangi, Eric said that he wanted to see the world, and he thought that the best way was to get on a boat going to America. He said that he was a great reader of books, and he wanted to see things for himself. "I would like to go to sea," he .said, wistfully, "but I suppose I will have to go back to school."
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9061, 20 April 1937, Page 3
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