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rangers. A letter was also sent to the Royal Queensland 
Yacht Club, asking them to use their influence to have 
the shooting evil abated in Moreton Bay. 
The cause of the Emus was not overlooked during 
the year, and in one or two interviews with a very cour- 
teous Government official, your sub-committee was as- 
sured that the payment for scalps would not be continued 
after 31st December, 1927. Up to that date about 50,000 
Emus and a like number of eggs had been destroyed — 
enough to thin the birds out considerably in pear country. 
The thanks of your sub-committee are due to the 
Director of the Museum for bird specimens loaned at 
lectures. 
D. A. HERBERT, 
Chairman. 
(Mrs.) W. M. MAYO, 
Honorary Secretary. 
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REPORTS ON THE EASTER EXCURSION TO 
CANUNGRA, April 6—10, 1928. 
(a) General. 
By J. E. YOUNG, President. 
The holding of a camp out at Easter having become 
a general custom, it was decided to hold one as usual 
this year, the only variation being that whereas for the 
last few years various places in Moreton Bay have been 
visited, it was arranged to go inland on this occasion. 
The site selected Avas on the upper waters of the 
Coomera River, about two miles from Canungra, on a 
considerable lagoon, backed by magnificent native trees, 
about a mile above the site of the projected dam, for 
impounding a water supply for Brisbane, and on the pro- 
perty of Mr. W. G. Franklin. The party numbered thirty- 
two. 
No extensive trips were undertaken on the first day, 
but a fe\A € - of the party in the afternoon Avalked over the 
ridge to Back Creek, at the foot -of Beechmont North, 
and found much of interest, though a much longer time 
might well have been spent, in this direction. 
On the tAvo folloAving days the party was split up, 
some each day visiting Tambourine Mountain, on the one 
