AUCKLAND ZOO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 6

AUCKLAND ZOO

ADDED ATTRACTIONS MORE ANIMALS ORDERED (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. A number of extremely interesting exhibits will be added to the collection at the Auckland Zoological Gardens as a result of an order cabled to London by the Auckland City Council. The new purchases, which will cost approximately £6CO, will reach Auckland towards the end of November.

The ofi'er of a, large number of rare, animals and birds was received by cable some days ago from the town clerk, who is at present in London. The purchases authorised, with the. prices as offered, arc: One pair of three-quarter-grown cheetahs, £150; one pair of adult oryx gazelle, £140: one half-grown female brown bear, £75; one female ant-eater, £7O; one pair el' mandrils, £45; on pair of gelada baboons, £3O; one. pair of spider monkeys. £27 10s; one pair of peacock pheasants, £2O: two pairs of white swans. £ls: and one female ocelot, £l2 10s.

This gives a total cost of £585, and the town clerk was authorised to make the consignment up to £6OO, as the offer contained an undertaking that if the council purchased exhibits to the value of £6OO the consignment would be brought to Auckland by an experienced keeper, who is also bringing a consignment of attractive birds, "to which the council will bo given the first refusal. The shipment should leave London about October 6.