The l^outh Australian Naturalist. 



The complaint about the massacre of 80 seals on Pearson's 

 Isles turne(i out to refer to an old occurrence, and not a fresh 

 slaughter, as was at first thought. 



A protest was made by the Committee to the Common- 

 wealth Minister of Customs against the shipment of Australian 

 birds by the ** Medic," and a reply was received that that 

 particular shipment had been allowed because it was in fufil- 

 ment of orders received before the 29th March last, and the 

 specimens were collected before that date. In answer to that, 

 a request was made to the Minister to prohibit the export of 

 Australian birds for the future. 



Enquiry was made by the District Clerk of Minlaton as 

 to the possibility of successfully introducing kookaburras in 

 a reserve in that town, which has some big trees and is about 

 half a mile long and a street wide. The members doubted the 

 success of such an effort on account of the smallness of the 

 area. 



A proposal to form a sanctuary (eight miles from Mount 

 Gambler) of the Forest Reserve of 8,000 acres, to which a 

 further 4,000 acres should be added by purchase, is still in 

 abeyance. The State Minister is favourable to the project, but 

 the purchase of the additional 4,000 acres requires to be passed 

 by Parliament. The whole land is of a scrubby nature, with 

 sheaoaks and bracken thereon. 



It was reported that Messrs. Pearce Bros, and Yelland and 

 Bowman (of Campbell House) had made their lands on Lake 

 Alexandrina, which extend from Reed}^ Point to Point Sturt 

 and to Hindmarsh Island, in all about twenty miles, sanctuaries 

 as regards the bird life thereon. 



In response to a request from the Customs and Excise 

 Office, Captain S. A. White was nominated for appointment on 

 the Advisory Committee for this State re the Exportation of 

 birds and animals, with Mr. W. Champion Hackett to act in 

 the nominee's absence. 



Flinders Chase. The Chairman reported that the Govern- 

 ment had purchased the Rocky River Station and added it to 

 the Chase, and that Mr. May had been engaged to act as 

 Ranger on the Chase. 



S. A. WHITE, Chairman. 



J. SUTTON, Hon. Secretary. 

 September 19, 1923. 



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