SPORT IN AFRICA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5241, 20 February 1928, Page 3

SPORT IN AFRICA.

)VELIfINGTONIAN’iSI. IMPRESSIONSHUGE GAME RESERVE. Mr H. Andersen, of. Wellinigton, who recently’ returned from, a tour in South Africa, India, and the East, gave a lecture on his experiences before the Rotary Club, Speaking of the animal life of South. Africa, Mr Anderson mentioned that trains took live hours, to pass through the great game reserve in the country, bordering on the Colony of Kenya, and that he observed herds of. giraffes, gazelles } and elands- In some parts of tiie area travelled game was, ho.wever, 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, wtere 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, about 17,000 feet high, but after attaining an altitude of 15,00'0 feet they had to return on account of. the. carriers becoming -very ill. These mountains, he said, have been climbed only twites —by an Italian party and bv an Englishman. Kenya 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.