KANGAROO HUNT
JOKE BY AUSTRALIANS
SEARCH FOR LOST MASCOT
Soon after a party of Australian -airmen arrived at Montreal, a stuffed kangaroo which the Australians had as a mascot, disappeared. The airmen, upset though they were at the loss of their mascot, could not resist the chance of a joke—they reported the escape of a live kang-< aroo. Since then reports have be.cn published 'in widely separated areas of ? Canada of a live kangaroo being seen by residents. The local papers have interviewed these- people and published many fantastic stories. The latest report is that the. kangaroo had been seen by a farmer Jumping a fence on the far side of Lake Ontario, which means that it -must have swum the St. Lawrence River. And the hunt still goes on. |
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 33, 14 December 1943, Page 5
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130KANGAROO HUNT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 33, 14 December 1943, Page 5
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