700 SNAKES FOR ZOOS
CATCHES IN AUSTRALIA PAYMENT AT RATE PER FOOT - SYDNEY, May 25. When a dust-begrimed car. and trailer stalled in the'heart of Sydney today ■the curious crowd ■• which gathered found that the trailer's freight consisted of' 700 live snakes, ranging from pythons to ' death adders. ■ i The'snakes were caught by a professional /snake-catcher,, , Eudolph Dehaume, aged 27, in outback and Central Australia. He explained that the snakes were chiefly for shipment to the London and Continental zoos. Payment for them would be made at. a 'rate per foot. . , , ■'■...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 11
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