THE KING’S EMPIRE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12390, 30 July 1937, Page 3

THE KING’S EMPIRE

SOUTH AFRICA—SIGHTS AND WONDERS The amazing Witwatersrand Gold Mines seem*to have been touched by King Midas. All lighted by electric lamps, they make a city underground with 190,000 \people and 4.00 miles of streets. Oii the surface hse great pyramids of rock from which the gold has been crushed. Untier Table Mountain grows the blue ebarieis with the. Protea,, the Union’s .national flower, a spit where we might wander waist-deep in flowers between the mountains and the sea. I Amid huge rocks like giants’ .skulls & the grave of Cecil Rhodes —a spot J’bere we think of him in those fine words; "Living he was the land, and J e *d his soul shall be her soul.” Abous 25 miles from Pretoria is the Hartebeestpoort Dam holding up an ?rea of 250 square miles of water; ani a marvellous bit of the Union °f South Africa is the Kruger National Park where we find lions and a t -home. . There is the famous Mlengana ™ck between Port St. John and Uma cruel height -where the Bantu tii s corn P e lled cowards to hurl wemselves to their death, and where, j to a tradition cherished neighbourhood, an entire regient once threw itself over in rerhif *° a command from their 1 thi- TtT he Howick Falls are among cun . on ’ s wonders—a gleaming Via w ater twice as high as 1 ran* a ’ and there is the wall of . ri l )f s near Oudsthoorn, a giant barwhii t T , ’ elve feet high and bristling v a , s P’nes; the post-office tree at ■ j : ® a y where, says an old story, Wrnf Wrec ked Portuguese captain atm « an . account of his misfortuner hun?' ' u an old slloe w h ich b® dav° ° a mtlkwood tree we see todesi'a balancing rock in RhoWhirt r centring trick in stone 3mnn» one °f the many freaks ng the Matapo hills.