JOURNEY BY CANOE
ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA MARRIAGE ON ARRIVAL .United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July » Undeterred by the fate of Ronald Jinnings, the young insurance clerk, who was drowned at Rotherhithe at Hie outset ol a voyage by canoe to Australia, J. R. White will leave Torquay shortly in order to marry an Adelaide girl. May Evans. lie proposes to voyage by canoe and arrive in the summer of 1941. Jennings, who was only 17, told his mother that lie was going to Australia because he wanted an outdoor Hie. He said lie would not go by steamer. He hoped to get there in a collapsible canoe, and started from Tower Bridge. His body was found a few miles down the river. The canoe was drifting near by. in it was an atlas of the world. “Left at 8 a.m. for Australia. Tide running wrong way,” was the last tuiry in his diary.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20853, 11 July 1939, Page 7
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