NEW INDUSTRY!
FROM CROCODILE EGGS A crocodile in a private zoo at Townsville (Australia) built a nest on a tiny island in a lagoon and laid 78 eggs—unprecedented because crocodiles in captivity do not lay at all. If white people could be brought, to regard these eggs in the same light as the blacks, a new industry could be developed. When the aborigines And a nest they refuse to leave until the last egg is gone, but th® whites do not relish the ancient fishlike. flavour.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 3
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86NEW INDUSTRY! Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 3
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