PROGRESS AT THE ZOO.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1923, Page 4

PROGRESS AT THE ZOO.

TRAMS BY CHRISTMAS. 3 j DEATH OF THE BLACK DEAR CUBS. • | The Mayor. Mr. -1. 11. Gunson, -'paid a visit thus morning to tha i Zoo. accompanied ,y the chairman sI of the Parks an-* Work. Come I mittces. Mr. Geo. Baiulou. i)n his return -j he stated that work is proceeding e_e peditiously. and the accommodation for i, I the tigers is now well advanced, ami ■, :that for the polar bears is being put in . ; hand. "Planting work for the present i season is almost completed," said Mr. I Gunson, "some 4000 trees having been ' planted in permanent positions about i the park. The contractors for the tea : kiosk and the elephant house arc making good progress. On Thursday afternoon | the members of the Parks and Works I Committees will make a joint visit of 1 inspection. I'nfortuiiately. we have loat I the two small black bear cubs. The dam iof this species of bear appears to possess a reputation for killing her cubs when they are very small, either by eating r them or by .-mothering them, and if w» v. : get another lot we shall tr;. to preserve > I tliem by taking them from tie* mother s I immediately they arc born and rearing .„ ! them apart from her. The polar hear .-, | cubs should be shipped this month from c I London and bo out here in a couple uf p ; months' time. n j "The attendance at the Zoo keeps up if I very well. The tramway extension will c| he started in a. few months' lime, and c prill be running to ihe Zoo by ( hristnias." c i