IMMORTAL MEETING WAS TO BE RE-ENACTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5288, 28 December 1946, Page 2

IMMORTAL MEETING WAS TO BE RE-ENACTED

LIVINGSTONE'S . DESCENIDANT iDIES ON EVE OF TRIP Two announcembnts — one _of a ieath and the other of a birth — have recalled the meeting of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa. Squadro-n-Leader David Livingstone, 29 years of age, died suddenly at his home at Worthing. The next day his son, who also will be ^hristened David, was born. Squadron-Leader Livingstone was the great-grandson of David Livingstone, the explorer. He was captured by the Germans in a shot-down Flying Fortress in 1943. A month ago he advertised for a man of the name of Stanley who would accompany him on a business ' triu^to the Cape by air. " Having room for two more passengers, he suggested that if there were a Stanley who would like to make the trip they would cross ever Ujiji, on the shores of massive Lake Tanganyika where in 1871 H. M. Stanley fulfilled the mission aphointed to him by Gordon Bennett, nxroprietor of the New York Herald, "to go find the lost Livingstone." There were rejdies from several StanleyS, and one, Mr. C. J. Stanley, a Capetown jeweller now in Britain, had practically fixed up with Squad-ron-Leader Livingstone to be his passenger. In the air, over Tanganyika, they ; would have shaken hands solemnly and would momentarily have reenacted the immortal meetfng. That was the plan of the greatgrandson of David Livingstone. Now death has interve,ned.