Objection To Monkeys
(N.Z.P.A. Stalf Correspondent)
SYDNEY, August 15.
The Federal Government has refused to allow monkeys to be kept at a proposed zoo in North Queensland because they might escape and eat the bananas, according to an Opposition Labour member of Parliament. Dr R. Patterson said the Department of Health had first said the monkeys might bring in exotic diseases, then they had said they might escape and eat the bananas.
Dr Patterson, who said the owners of a 2000-square-mile grazing property south of Townsville wanted to establish a showpiece rural zoo, stocked entirely with animals bred in Australia, described the Government’s attitude as! “ridiculous.” The Minister of Health (Dr A. J. Forbes) said his advisers had a real appreciation of the danger escaped wild monkeys would be to human and animal health.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31760, 17 August 1968, Page 20
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