LIONS FOR SALE
Because the cost of upkeep is too high, the municipal zoo at Hobart, Tasmania, is being sold. Most of the birds and animals have found homes, but several lions remain a problem. The zoos at Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane do-not want them, and a proposal to shoot the animals met with such a storm of protest from residents that it is hoped their lives will be spared.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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70LIONS FOR SALE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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