BIG GAME HUNTING

Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5

BIG GAME HUNTING

EXCITING EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

One has only to -chat for a few hours with Captain Prictor, who has recently arrived from South Africa, to learn of the thrilling experiences of the big game hunter. The hair-breadth escapes from the big maneating lions; or as one is stalking his game through the jungle to find that the wily leopard is stalking the hunter. The big game hunter is a man’s job, that is, when the job is taken on for a living. Captain Prictor is a tanner by profession, and he takes on big game hunting to provide the skins for his business. He has brought over from South Africa a very fine selection of rare skins, samples of which are now being shown in Messrs H. & J. Smith’s window. In hearthrugs are to be seen the hyena kaross, lion, tiger, lebald, kaross, leopard, cheats and leopard mounted, black Angora. It is safe to say that the selection in Smith’s window is the finest ever shown in Invercargill, and each skin carries with it Captain Prictor’s personal guarantee. Smith’s are also showing a wide range of furs for making up, including brown rabbit, white, grey, and black coney, squirrel and seal musquash, mole coney, golden spot dassie musquash, black seal coney, marmot, electric seal coney and Hudson and natural beaver coney. This is a very wide range of skins, and Messrs H. & J. Smith are taking orders for these skins to be made up into coats, furs, and necklets. “As man cannot live by bread alone,” so a woman wants something more than hearthrugs and fur coats, and it will be good news to the ladies of Southland to know that their Friday’s bargains will include rare values in sheeting, silks and rib-1 bons. Smith’s are certainly upholding their reputation of being the biggest drapers by giving the biggest bargains.— (Advt.)