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ON THE MOOI OF NATAL 
HE Mooi is one of four really good trout 
rivers in Natal. The other three are the 
Umgeni, the Bushman’s and the Loteni. 
The Mooi used to be the most popular 
not only with anglers in the old Garden Colony, 
as Natal used to be called before legislature 
promoted it, on 31st May, 1910, to the status of 
a Province, but also with anglers farther afield. 
In Johannesburg, for instance, its fame is 
established. From Park, the principal ‘station at 
Johannesburg, golfers go, when on holiday, to 
the Kowie, Cape Province; those who love the 
seaside make for Natal in winter, and for favourite 
haunts in Cape Province in summer; anglers 
generally make it their starting point for Notting- 
ham Road, Natal, to fish the Mooi. 
On leaving Johannesburg for an angling trip 
in Natal you feel much as you would were youa 
hard-worked professional or business man in 
London awaiting at Paddington or King’s Cross 
a train to bear you away on a fishing holiday to 
Devonshire or Scotland. Of course, you get no 
salmon in South Africa, yet if it is late September, 
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