WALLABY SHOOT
(Special Crepdt. N.Z.P.A.)
SYDNEY, May 30.
The photograph showed a huntsman swinging a young wounded wallaby by the tail to bash its head against a rock and kill it. The huntsman was “exterminating a pest” and the photograph illustrated a newspaper account of the annual wallaby shoot at Avoca, a mining centre in north eastern Tasmania.
The shoot during which 200 men killed about 1000 wallabies, has caused a storm of protest throughout Tasmania and Victoria. But it has been defended by the Tasmanian Animals’ and Birds’ Protection Board, which said it was necessary, and the graziers whose property was used said: “I wish 2000 had been shot instead of 1000.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 15
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113WALLABY SHOOT Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 15
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