FILMS OF ANIMAL LIFE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 9

FILMS OF ANIMAL LIFE

EXPEDITION TO AFRICA NOTED BOER WAR SCOUT The Chief of Scouts to the late Lord Roberts in the South African War, Major F. R. Burnham, arrived in Wellington by the R.M.S. Makura yesterday. .Major Burnham is going through by the Makura to Sydney, where he will join the Themistocles for South Africa. His intention is to traverse once more the ground he covered in his exploring work there and in the wars he served in. Major Burnham, who is a member of the State Park Commission of California, which is just forming some great parks and game reserves in that State, is also going to investigate the game reserves of Africa. •'

Major Burnham is accompanied by, his wife and son, his daughter-in-law and his grand-daughter. . “My son,” stated Major Burnham, “is taking with him the latest apparatus for taking moving pictures in colour and animal life' on the veldt, and this is the Arts outfit of the kind to go to Africa. The pictures taken will be for the State Park Commis-, sion to use in an educational way for our own people. I wanted to use those cameras, if possible, in New Zealand this trip, but we will have to make another expedition to the Dominion for the purpose. Our work In Africa will occupy from four to five months of our time, but we hope to return to New Zealand. In fact, my son is planning to come back about the end of next year. We were Out this morning and took a beautiful panorama of Wellington Harbour. We are engaged on a purely scientific expedition, not on behalf of any moving picture concern. Our secondary object in going to Africa is to visit my old friends in Africa who were in the old wars with me.”