SPARROW PEST
PAIR RELEASED FROM CARINTKAIRA. PRECAUTIONS IN WEST U'sTRLIA WIDE SEARCH FOR ONE BIRD. PERTH. Jan. 19. Up to the present Western Australia has kept free from the sparrow pest, strict precautions on the part or the authorities having prevented their introduction. A week ago a boy caught a sparrow at Fremantle which the Agricultural Department immediately destroyed. Inquiries disclosed- that two sparrows sheltered aboad the American tourist steamer Carinthia crossing the Australian Bight. They caught and released by a passenger when the vessel reached Fremantle. The Agricultural Department is conducting a wide search for the second bird
Tiie introduction of the pest is regarded as a menace to the fruit industry.—U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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113SPARROW PEST Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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