A UNIQUE HOLIDAY
GAME HUNT IN AFRICA
MELBOURNE, Jan, 23. After a unique 18 months' holiday, into which was packed a four months lion-hunting expedition in Kenya colony, and a 19,0C0-milo car trek through the United Kingdom and the Continent, Mr. A. M. Younger, a contractor of Caulfleld, his wife, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and two sons, Messrs. A. D. and J. F. Younger, returned to Melbourne yesterday. In the family's bag of 150 animals were three elephants, eight lions, and specimens of 56 different, species of wild game, including giraffe, Grant's gazelle, rhinoceros, wildebeest©, koodoo, zebra, hyena,/ and springbok. Mr. Younger said: thev had shot as much as their £IOO visitors' license permitted. Tn addition to the licenses, £SO bad to be paid for each elephant, killed, £-12 10s for each giraffe, and £l2 for each rhinoceros. Every second native, Mr. Younger explained, was a game scout, and there was practically no chance of evading the game regulations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 7
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159A UNIQUE HOLIDAY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 7
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