SETTLED DOWN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21304, 25 March 1939, Page 6

SETTLED DOWN

BIG GAME HUNTERS JOHANNESBURG, February 15. Five men, famous as big-game hunters, have now settled down within 15 miles of one another on the Far East Rand, and all save one have abandoned hunting for very prosaic occupations. Colonel C. F. Naus, who captured a live giant gorilla for the Belgian Government, is now a garage proprietor at Brakpan. He declared that since he shot his last gorilla in the Belgian Congo he has never shot an anima! save in self-defence. The expression on the gorilla’s face, the pitiful, almost human cries it uttered, so affected him that he swore that he would never again shoot an animal if he could help it. Major Pretorious, D. 5.0., who lives at Nigel, is the only one who remains a hunter. His business is the organising of “safari” (hunting expeditions). “Oom Fasie” de Wet, who accompanied Sangiro, the Afrikaans author on the trip through Central Africa which is described in “Op Safari,” is now an advertising agent. Stansell, who shot forty elephants in Portuguese East Africa within a few months, is a foreman shopfitter, while Ernest Pike, a lion and snake hunter, has become the proprietor of an engineering works.