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Evening Star, Issue 22336, 12 May 1936, Page 12

Permission lias been given for one of the world’s rarest animals to be shot for display at the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg this year. It will be a white rhinoceros, one of .the odd -Aw of its species remaining in the vvorid.' For years they have been protected with great care in the XJmfolosi resene. Natal, but it is believed the species is destined to extinction. Five starved to death in a recent droughty The game conservator of the’ TTiiifolosi reserve has been told to select an old bull for the occasion. The .carcass will be stuffed for the exhibition, and later given to one of the principal museums. As a liner was anproaching the port of Athens, an old lady said to one of the sailors: —“Can you tell mo wbat tha'- white stuff is on the mountains.'' “Know, madam.” said the sailor “ That’s what I thought.” said the old lady. “ hut one of the passengers has just said it was Greece.”