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States market remains closed there will be but little local incentive 



for destruction quite apart from any Australian protective laws" 



(Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, 22d Ann. Kept., 1931) . 



Hobley calls attention (1934, p. 79) to private sanctuaries for 



FIG. 8. New South Wales Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus oinereus) 



the Koala established by Noel Burnet in the Pennant Hills, near 

 Sydney, and by C. A. M. Reid at Lone Pine, near Brisbane. (The 

 latter is presumably stocked with the Queensland subspecies.) He 

 adds: 



"Great credit is due to the founders of these sanctuaries who 

 have been public-spirited enough to secure the safety of a number 

 of these creatures without any Government support. . . . 



