SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR
Empire Press Delegates
Kimberley, February 11. After a stay of a week in Cape Town the Empire Press delegates departed on Sunday by two special trains on the first stages of a journey that will continue until March 21. The places they will visit include Kimberley, Mafeking, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls. Salisbury, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Zimbabwe, Bloemfontein, Ladysmith and. Durban, the tour involving 6000 miles of the Union and. Rhodesia. Special telephonic facilities are provided aboard the trains to be linked with land lines, enabling delegates to communicate with any part of the Union. The trains also carry a doctor and nurse, and special precautions are being taken against malaria. Monday was spent at Kimberley, the delegates lunching at the Kimberley Club as the guests of De Beers Consolidated Mines Company. Afterward they visited the famous “Big Hole,” from which £260,000,000 worth of diamonds has been taken. They also viewed the pulsator at work. The diamond mines have not been worked for several years.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 9
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