Tom Lawrence - Member of the Tanzania Professional Hunters' Association

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Heather Carr-Hartley: Pat was the eldest son, and known as Pat, not Kenneth. The Carr-Hartley and Sons which was started by Pat’s father Carr  (surname) Hartley  – who then made their surname into a double barrel Carr-Hartley, started the first know Game Trapping business. This in those days was done by lassoing the animals. It was primarily for translocation of animals to a safer area and animals being caught, taken to their Game Farm at Rumuruti and then sent to zoos.

John Lawrence (Tom Lawrence's father) and Fred Bartlett opened a hunting company in Botswana called Hunters Africa. John Lawrence and Fred Bartlett employed us to manage the company in Kasane in Chobe, Botswana. Pat did do the occasional hunt. Pat introduced Photographic Safaris to Hunters Africa. Photography was his passion. We left Hunters Africa after it changed hands. We opened our own business called Kasane Enterprises. It was a service and secretarial company and we did everything from assisting camps and lodges with “Meets and Greets of their clients”, refueling aircraft. I am a nurse and assisted often with accidents and Medivacs. There was no airport in Kasane in those early days, and the aircraft landed on a gravel strip. We opened two other business as well. We were in Kasane for 48 years( Pat died during those years in 2016 and I left in 2019). Pat was also an Honorary Game Warden of the Chobe National Park.