FEW HUNTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 11

FEW HUNTERS.

KANGAROO PROTECTED

RABBITS ARE FAIR GAME. CENSUS ANALYSIS FACTS. Although Australia is known throughout the world as the home of tbe kangaroo, these animals are so widely protected thatVmly 234 Australians make a living by hunting them—and 182 of those are Queenslanders. This is one of the fact* revealed in tho census analysis made by the Commonwealth Statistician under the heading of "industry."

Rabbits—the national pest—are fair game in every part of Australia, except the Northern Territory, where it is too hot even for them, and Western Tasmania, where it is too wet.

Nearly 3500-' Australians earn a living by trapping and poisoning rabbits, mostly in New South Walee.

Dingo hunting is a popular pastime— and trade—in Queensland, and 116 Australians are employed wholly in this industry. Mutton bird catching employs 39 Tasmanians.

Despite the potentialities of the whaling industry only nine Australians are listed as dependent on this industry for a livelihood.

More thai) 1100 Victorians are engaged in the fishing industry. This is slightly less than the number so employed in Queensland, and onlv half that of New South Wales.

The present Commonwealth Fishing Industry survey is designed to increase the catches and hauls off the Victorian coast.