ELEPHANT FOR THE ZOO
♦ THE PURCHASE ABANDONED. LOSSES IN SYDNEY. The purchase of an elephant which was ordered many months ago for the Newtown zoological collection ' has been cancelled hy the City Council. This decision was arrived at during the recent whittling down of the estimated expenditure for the current year to the level of the probable receipts. It is something like two years since the order was placed with the Sydney municipal authorities, who under toon to secure a young elephant from India at the same time as obtaining elephants for their own Zoo. Four two-year-old animals were landed in Sydney shortly before Christmas, but two died shortly after their arrival. The Sydney City Council advised the Wellington City Council that on account of the loss sustained they would have to increase the price agreed upon for the Newtown Zoo elephant (£350) to £6OO. In view of the extra cost the council has decided to abandon the purchase. The council has this year reduced the allocation for the Zoo from £421/0 to £4OOO.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 5
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174ELEPHANT FOR THE ZOO New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 5
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