RARE ANIMALS
SOUGHT FOR NEW YORK ZOO. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 22. Mr John Teevan, Bronx Zoo representative, is going to Australia, where he hopes to obtain the world’s largest collection of animal rarities, including Australia’s koala, platypus and anteater and also New Zealand’s kiwi and China’s panda. The zoo has arranged to fly daily quantities of special eucalyptus leaves from California if the koala is made available to the zoo. Mr Teevan is travelling 35,000 miles by air. General Chiang Kai-shek has arranged for a panda to be handed over to the zoo in appreciation of America’s relief efforts on behalf of China.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 7
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