BOTANIST’S TOUR
EXPERIENCES IN KRUGER PARK BIG GAME COME RIGHT UP Tfl CAI [Per United Press Association.] , AUCKLAND, November 29. On a two months’ visit to New Zealand in the course of a world tour studying, the flora. Professor A. J. Eames, of Cornell University, America, arrived by the Aorangi from Sydney. He said that within the past 25 years the viewpoint of farmers, particularly American, bad changed in favour of - utilising , the services of universitytrained men in assisting them to carry out farming operations. He instanced the spraying of fruit trees, the planting of crops*, and = combatting diseases in wheat, oats, and other cereals. He recalled that one of the outstanding experiences in the course of hia tour through - England, South . Africa,' and Australia was the motor drive through Kruger National Park, South Africa, where lions, elephants, antelopes, and other big gam© came right up to the car door. " V “ Of course, you are not allowed to get out of the car,” he remarked with a smile. He is accompanied by his wife and son, and proposes to meet the •' botanists of each New Zealand city.
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Evening Star, Issue 22818, 29 November 1937, Page 10
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187BOTANIST’S TOUR Evening Star, Issue 22818, 29 November 1937, Page 10
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