TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA
EMPIRE PRESS DELEGATES
A DAY AT KIMBERLEY
(Received February 12,' 2 p.m.) ■■■.' KIMBERLEY, February 11. After a stay of a . week in Capa 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, Maf eking, Bulawayo, - Victoria Palls, Salisbury, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Zimbabwe, Bloemf ontein, 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 parfof the union. The trains also carry a doctor and nurse, arid special precautions are being taken against malaria. Monday was spent at Kimberley, the delegates lunching at the Kimberley Club as the guests of De Beer's Consolidated Mines Company.. Afterwards they visited the famous "Big HoleT1 from which £260,000,000 worth of dia< monds has been taken. They also viewed the pulsator at work. The diamond mines have not been worked for several years. ■'
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Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 10
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177TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 10
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