STARLING PEST
SYDNEY, Alarcli 17. The starling pest is causing such serious damage in A 1 urrumhidgee irrigation areas, tlmt concerted actum for their destruction has become ncccssarv Fverv owner and lessee will be made rosnousible for destroying under penalty, all nests and eggs on lus property. PENNY POSTAGE. SYDNEY. Afarch 17. At a conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce a motion expressed the opinion that the time had arrived when penny postage within the British Empire was advisable. There was considerable opposition, one member stating they should not ask the department to suffer a further loss of revenue. It had already lost a million sterling yearly from reduction to a penny half-penny postage. The motion was ultimately withdrawn.
DISCOVERY OF FOSSILS. SYDNEY, .March 17. An important discovery of a large quantity of fossilised bones of many species is reported from Wellington ■Caves. They include portion of the jaw bone supposedly belonging to the diprotodon of Australia, a huge extinct animal unrelated to any living animal, but standing between kangaroos and’ wombats. Also probably the bones of Australia’s remarkable marsupial lion,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1926, Page 3
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182STARLING PEST Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1926, Page 3
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