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The South Justralian Naturalist. 
The complaint about the massacre of 80 seals on Pearson 
Isles turned 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 Reedy 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 
