WILD DOG PEST
RAVAGES AMONG SHEEP
APPEAL FOB STATE ASSISTANCE.
(UNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYBIGHT.) (Received June 16, 11.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
/A deputation from the West Darling district asked the Minister of Lands for protection against the wild dog menace. The speaker stated that the number of sheep in the three largest districts in the north-west was 1,250,000 in 1911, and 271,000 in 1920. The decrease was primarily due to the wild dogs. The deputation requested that £50,000. should be set aside to enable main fences to be built arid others to be repaired, and the necessary netting to be made available; for private fences on easy terms. It also asked thai a Wild Dog Act should is introduced. The Minister promised an investigation •by Cabinet.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1922, Page 7
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126WILD DOG PEST Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1922, Page 7
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