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Ducks at Gatton Agricultural College, 1928

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The Telegraph
30 March 1928

Money in Ducks

There is nothing In the poultry world so noticeable at the moment as the in creasing attention that Is being given to ducks. Unfortunately, however, the “duckers” are putting all their eggs into one basket, or in other words, they seem to have caught from some of the utility hen men the Idea, that all that matters In poultrydom is eggs (writes “G.IH.”. In the Auckland . “Weekly News”.)

We hear people talking about utility ducks, as others do about utility poultry, and all they mean In either case Is tho laying of eggs, or the capacity for so doing.- This Is wrong. We all know that there is money in eggs, but eggs are not, and should not he allowed to rend utility every time and all the time. Eggs have their place, and so has meat, and the bird

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Koala in the Blackall Range, Montville, c 1931

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The Brisbane Courier
7 December 1931

Re-establishing the Koala.

One of the difficulties to the re-establishment of the native bear (the Koala), throughout the States of Australia matter in which the Wild Life Preservation Society takes the keenest interest-is the misapprehension, which is widespread, that there are only one or two kinds of eucalyptus or gum tree suited to its palate, it is true that the Koala is far more restricted in its dietary scale than the possum, for instance, and that in a patch of forest there may be only two or three varieties of gum that suit it.

In its native condition, however, as known originally in Eastern Australia, the native bear was. distributed over a very large area in parts affected by very many distinct species of eucalypts.

The Wild Life Preservation Society has been trying to secure small supplies of wild Koala for liberation in suitable

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