A 125,000 Mlle Walk.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 586

A 125,000 Mlle Walk.

That postmen cover a great amount of ground in the course of performing their daily duties we are all aware, but that in delivering letters for six-and-twenty years a man should have to cover 125,000 miles of ground is a fact which few of us have ever imagined possible. Yet such is the remarkable re.ord of George Thompson, who has just retired from service as postman in the Langrick district of Yorkshire. Can you realise what that means! Probably not, though when it is stated that Thompson's twenty-six year walk, if taken as one outing and the course were over land and. water right round the earth, keeping along the track of the equator, would mean that he would walk five times round the earth, you may be able to grasp the idea better. And yet this has only represented an average outing of sixteen miles a day.