NEW ZEALAND SPORTSMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19967, 8 December 1926, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND SPORTSMEN.

VISIT TO CENTRAL AFRICA. LARGE BAGS SECURED. (Special to Dailv Times.) WELLINGTON, December 7. To spend several months in, a region teeming with huge elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, buffaloes, lions, and antelopes has been the good fortune of two wellknown Wairarana sportsmen, Brigadiergeneral H. E. Hart and Mr V. Donald, who returned by the Maunganui to-day from a six months’ hunting tour m the Luangwa Valley, Central Africa. They found the region a veritable happy huntinj? ground, as it had been closed for 10 years on account of sleeping sickness, and had only been reopened to hunters prior to their arrival. They enjoyed excellent sport, so they stated. Their bag included a considerable number of buffaloes, six lions, five elephants, five hippopotami, five rhinoceroses, and a large number of elephants. Owing to the tetse fly, all portenng ot everything has to be done by natives. They were paid 7s 6d a month, the exact amount they pay each year for hut tax. “And jolly good workers they are, too. They think nothing of working 16 hours a day. Once hey cheerfully stood up to their shoulders in mud for half the night pushing our boat through to deeper water. It was explained the party had made a circle of from 800 to 900 miles in addition to the railway journey througn Northern Rhodesia. Fifteen days were taken in paddling 300 miles up the Luapala, an upper tributary of the Congo, in canoes. Sportsmen entering Rhodesia had to pay a tax of £3O, which entitled them to shoot one elephant, three hippopotami, three rhinoceroses, and any number of lions, antelope, and buffalo. A tax of 2s Cd per lb was also imposed for all ivory taken out of the country.