Wallabies home
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Sixteen Ift-high Australian animals were flown back home last week after their species had been 100 years in New Zealand. They are Parma or white-throated Wallabies, which have all but died out in Australia. Considered extinct until 1968 when a naturalist discovered a colony in Dorrigo State Forest, in northern New South Wales after a five-year search, the Parma will be reintroduced to old areas through careful breeding.
A Sydney businessman, Mr P. Piggott, a trustee of the National Parks and Wildlife Foundation, imported 16 by air today in order to breed them for release in the wild.
Missing seaman.—No trace las been found of the Japanjse ship’s carpenter, Shoichi Xitagawa, aged 46, of the lainanoh Maru, which sailed for the New Hebrides from Lyttelton on Tuesday evenng. The mis Sing man was last seen near the No. 7 Wharf at about 8.30 p.m. on June 9. Police divers searched near the vessel on Tuesday.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33254, 18 June 1973, Page 15
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