SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 8

SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA

WELLINGTON TRAVELLER’S IMPRESSIONS Mr. H. Anderson, of Wellington, who recently returned from a tour in South Africa, India, and the East, gave a lecture on his experiences before the Rotary Club yesterday. Speaking of the animal life of South Africa, Mr. Anderson mentioned that tiains took five hours to pass through the great game reserve in the countrj’ bordering on the Colony of Kenya, and that he observed herds of giraffes, gazelles, and elands. In some parts of the area travelled game was, however, not very plentiful, and the sportsman had to hunt for it to get a bag. Mr. Anderson mentioned that the lions, kept in captivity in the zoos, especially the one at Johannesburg, were incomparably finer and larger than any to be seen in the Australian and New Zealand zoos. The finest exhibit he saw was a lion and an Airedale dog in the same cage. They had been brought up as cub and pup, together. Mr. Anderson joined a party intending to climb the Ruwenzori range of mountains in Uganda, .-bout 17,000 feet high, but after attaining an altitude of 15,000 feet they had to return on account of one of the carriers becoming very ill. These mountains, he said, have been climbed only twice, by an Italian party, and by an Englishman. Kenva was described as a very fertile and glorious country where there were many British public school boys, a fair number of Australians, and some New Zealanders, engaged in farming.