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BUFFALOS FOR EXPORT NORTH AUSTRALIAN PLAINS In China," Java, and Malaya the water buffalo js extensively used as a working animal, and the wanton destruction of them by the Japanese during their regime is indeed a calamity.
Australian horsemen have come id the rescue and are planning a ;great round-up among the buffalo herds that now roam the lonely Northern Australian plains. They propose to rope out the calves, tame and irain.them, and then ship them to the East. .
The man behind the scheme is Major William Grainger, how acting head of Unrra's Agricultural Division. .A survey, lasting six weeks, •was made by plane, launch, truck, and cm horseback. Hunters were convinced that though huge herds of buffalo could be located it was not possible to- trap or muster them, so they decided to lasso the young .buffalo.
The hunters estimate that 5000 young buffalo can be caught in the first season's operations.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 60, 8 April 1946, Page 8
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155GREAT ROUND-UP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 60, 8 April 1946, Page 8
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