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as have be€n made in appointing the Board of the National 

 Park be thus avoided. The committee is pleased to learn 

 that the Crown lands in the districts of Barossa, Para Wirra, 

 and Mount Crawford have been proclaimed a kangaroo dis- 

 trict, and that kangaroos will be absolutely protected there- 

 in for a period of ten years. They have under consideration 

 the question of recommending the proclamation of other dis- 

 tricts. 



The Committee is also glad to know that nature study 

 is now to find a place in our public-schools curriculum, a 

 course which they recommended at a deputation which waited 

 upon the Minister of Education about fifteen years ago. 



Saml. Dixon, Chairman. 



Adelaide, September 17, 1907. 



