WALLABY EXPORT
Species In NJ.
(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, April 19. A species of wallaby on Kawau island originally imported to New Zealand from Australia, is now believed to be the only survivor of Its kind.
According to a Hamilton pet dealer, this species of wallaby, Macropus parma, has now become extinct in Australia, and he thinks the small colony of them still living on Kawau island could be the only ones in existence living in a wild state.
The dealer, Mr P. I. Dix, has been exporting wallabies to overseas animals dealers for sale to. zoos. So far he has sent wallabies to Germany, Holland and the United States. Mr Dix said there were four species of wallabies in New Zealand—none of them native —and these were found on Kawau island, around Rotorua, and near Waimate. At present Mr Dix is trapping the wallabies and holding them for several days in an “acclimatising” pen near Hamilton before sending them overseas by air.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 3
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