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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 14

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MOTOR v. WILD ELEPHANT. QUEER ESCAPADES OF TRANSv AFRICAN PIONEERS. The pioneer mot.jr expedition which set <,ut to iin estimate the possibilities id a great trunk highway from Cape Town through Central Africa to Cairo is now preparing lor a record clash fiorn i.ondon back to Cape Town aftei man.- r:.irio...s experiences on the outward journey. The expedition was undertaken by Mr G. H. llouwer, South Airica’s ieacling lacing motorist, and Mr Emil Milling the South Airican motoring journalist as the result of a plan of Sir

A■ i-? >.alley’s to make it easier for settlers throughout Africa to send their products up and down one main "road. The expedition encountered many odd di.iic-n ties, one of the lesser of which was that Aral) guides accustomed to < oing six miles an hour on their camels did not know where they were at thirty miles an hour in a car. The partyhad to be. hauled across the shallower parts of the Limpopo .River by donkey's which passed the ear on to a Moating bridge when the water got too deep for them. They drove across one road made by natives in an exact straight line for one hundred miles up hill and down hill o\er thirty-three rivers with tlisir thirty-three little- rickety bridges. Once the.- built their way across two miles of swamp by laying down logs and rushing their car over these m •spurts of a hundred yards at a time.