NEW ZEALANDEK IS CENTRAL AFRICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 89

NEW ZEALANDEK IS CENTRAL AFRICA.

' Mr Arthur R. Andrew. M.Se., A.O S.M.. i vho vill be leinembsred by ;uanv as a dishn^uifchod graduate of Gtugc .'-■'.•liool of M'iils, &v*\ as the Exhibition c r-i>olar of i y,e\: Zealand Urmcisity for 1904, ha 5 spent ihe past -three years in trio v, i!ds of (V;-.tral Africa — the parad^e of the bigr- , putie hunter, — where iie his hold the po-r of ohief =ur\eyor to the mineral =ur\ey of Uritisti Csijtral Africa Protectorate, a Uihish Go\crnrnent appointment of ai^at rosponsibilk j". - I His official duties, although necessarily exacting and on°roi'.« for cue so jouni/. ha\e be3n, so we gather from a private source, carried out with the zeal that t baractr r!«od his eailicr wck at the Otago Boys' Ilitrh Schcul ar.d Otago Uni\er^ity. , lii his pri\aie cori'e.-po.'i<jei:<:o Mr Ai-<.lre»v refeis with par.'ionabie eiithu--.ia&ni to iha progress of his si rveye. but, \ ith the lncd^stv that sec-ins to 1 c in.-oparab!(> fiom ' rodl worth, he si.;. 3 little abojt hi-- o.mi tioitig^. Enougrh, howe\er, lia^ fiheiod through fro;n time to time to ~!.-O'v tf>at he Jia> rot h^glr-oted to nu^'o.? tl.e jJle 'mi.r. The -tc-rhng for^ar-d of ti.3 'Varsity Bluc--^ Jia= pro\cr' himself a no n.^^n Nimrod, l.ii h;>4 iiiclu-dnig ffsny lin 0 fw>ipV- of tl'-> 1 pla .d, t,;<ble antf!op'» l c-fil tick, b '-lilil-cK. ■ p-.L'f. nupala tfwap 1 , iii'ji khj s^: 'nr^r, w''dtct- > -t, Lajt3b;c-=t. v •t. I b'-.ck, bs^-d:-N i.chri~. \-arfho»^, c!?; s :' .ii^ cioco li'. j . r.tid o li^i , of w:i:cii mciv ti-jp" 1 :"- .1 < rou- in t'-p j>---= — i-n of its rr.o:'-;^i I*l Dl -.'in Youi.l' 2S"c--^ Zcala:.-J lv.> (ji-t.r.juisli-.cl

himself in the domain of arts and applied science; and it is peculiarly gratifying to lecord that 'he is equally to the fore in the more manly game of hunter and explorer in the far-off land where the exploits of Speke, Baker. Livingstone, Stanley, and others still tTirill us with pride of our race. | =====