WALLABIES IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 15

WALLABIES IN BRITAIN

(Rec. 7 p.m.) DERBY, Dec. 16. Wallabies, believed to have escaped some years ago from a private zoo, have been seen by hikers in the Derbyshire peak district. Lord Scarsdale, president of the Derbv branch of the R.S.P.C.A., said to-night that apparently the wallabies had not only survived by a miracle of nature, but were multiplying in spite of the severity of the English climate. Lord Scarsdale appealed to people not to molest the wallabies. Lord Scarsdale said that on the North Derbyshire moors there were manv shallow, natural caves which small animals like the wallaby could find and which could make warm, dry shelters. It is thought that there may be more than a score of Wallabies m the area.

Boy Crushed by Tombstone.—A 6001 b tombstone, apparently undermined by rain, toppled over yesterday, crushing six-year-old Edward Schneider to death before his horrified family in St. Mary’s Cemetery East Crange, New Jersey. He was helping his parents and older brother decorate an uncle’s grave when the four-foot granite crucifix on an adjoining plot fell on him.—East Orange, December 17.

Philippines Aviation Week. — Units from the Royal Air Force and the Australian. New Zealand, the United States, and Nationalist China Air Forces put on a spectacular air show at Manila yesterday to open the Philippines aviation week. Australia contributed three Canberra jet bombers and New Zealand sent a Bristol transport aeroplane.—Manila, December 15.