KENYA COLONY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 1

KENYA COLONY

“WORLD’S BEST CLIMATE” CHANCE FOR INVESTORS ! “The finest climate I have over experienced anywhere,” said Dr. Deering, of Nairobi, to a SUN representative this morning. I He was not referring to Auckland but to Kenya Colony, whose attractions | he describes in glowing terms. ; For coffee planting and ranching th« j country has wonderful possibilities, ho : said, but it was very that ; prospective settlers, particularly those j going in for coffee, should have suffii ciem capital to enable them to keep going until their investments provided some return. Good coffee land was worth about Jis an acre, the average size of tho holding being about. 200 acres. The chief drawback was that live years elapsed before the plants produced to full extent. In order to get some return it was necessary to plant maize or some other crop in between the rows. Hr. Heering stated that he had just disposed of his Keny* holding, a ranch of about 30,000 acres, where he had lived for a number of years past, and on which he had run 4,000 head of cattle and 15,000 sheep. The wool was shipped to "iontlon but there was no export trade in meat, run-holders having to be content with a local trade only. GOOD SPORT AVAILABLE Sport was to be had in abundance. There were about 14 different varieties of antelope, while lions and elephants were to be had in the interior. Lions are still to be encountered in Kenya Colony, according to Hr. Heering, but from the description given by him they are apparently not of the “roaring” type seeking whom they may devour. Only for the fact they occasionally display a partiality for stock they are not taken very seriously by settlers and unless wounded, or startled rarely attacked human being 3. A movement was at present on foot to form a federation among the various colonies, stated Hr. Heering. There were six colonies or districts, namely, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyassaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Kenya, and the idea underlying the movement was to cut down administrative costs by some form of united government. Hr. Heering is at present on his way to Australia, India and South Africa, after which he intends to settle in London.