LONG JOURNEY

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19599, 11 June 1935, Page 5

LONG JOURNEY

SMALL BOY’S TRIP. | I I l i I NEW YORK TO FRANKTON. 1 i ' i After travelling many thousands of \ miles across land and sea unaccom- ; panied, a nine-year-old boy, Lawrence ! .Merkel, arrived safely yesterday at the resilience of Mrs F. E. Whittaker, in! Wha Street, Franklon, where he will j i make his home. Since early last month ' the hoy has crossed the American continent alone, and travelled from Vancouver to Auckland, where lie was , met yesterday by liis uncle, Mr E. J. (lonian, of Hamilton. Lawrence, who lived in Jersey Gity, I near New York, lost his mother shortly before Christmas last year, and his! : father decided lo send him to New! Zealand to be brought up. The long! journey lo his new home licit! no terrors for the small boy, and alter being placed aboard Hie Niagara at Vancouver, by iho. train stall' of the transcontinental express, lie soon set- ! ! tied down to iile aboard ship. His only regret when he arrived at Auckland was that the trip was not long enough. ; ! li is intended that lie should attend I ■ a private school In Hamilton for some | time, until lie becomes accustomed to | the differences between New Zealand and American conditions. He will - then probably become a pupil of one | of the State schools.