Sir edward hallstrom biography of abraham

For the last fortnight you haven't been able to move around off Long Reef for boats. The only member of the club, who hasn't been out there to date is Bob Dyer. I understand that he's waiting till the price goes up to a hundred. The trouble is that the sharks themselves seem to have got wind of the offer and they have become very snooty and extremely hard to get.

Where before it was just a matter of pouring a little blood from a porpoise into the sir edward hallstrom biography of abraham to bring a dozen sharks around the boat, now they want fried bream! If Mr. Hallstrom really wants to know where the best sharks go in spring he might have a look around a few Sydney fish cafes. We've had a lot of bad luck chasing around for a shark for Mr.

Last week the family landed a whopper at Bondi Beach. There was Mrs. Davey with a line around his tail, Aunt Bertha administering anaesthetic at the front end and the rest of us screaming and cheering. It looked like the money. Suddenly somebody looks around and says, "where's Joe?? You guessed it. Brother Joe's been down in the mouth for weeks.

Now he was down in the shark's mouth. As Aunt Bertha pointed out, that increased the value of the shark by a few bob, but my wife wouldn't have it. By the time we got Joe out the shark was useless as a Taronga Park exhibit. It was in a special steel case. Chairman of Taronga Park Trust E. Hallstrom said last night: "The shark will be on exhibition tomorrow.

It weighs pounds. Hallstrom if the shark lives seven days. The b. McAuley, of Port Kembla, a part-owner of the vessel stated that about 15 yards of the net was ripped to pieces by the shark in an effort to regain its freedom. A truck containing a team of workmen from the zoo arrived in Wollongong at 1. After filling the tank the shark was brought ashore on the beach near the Wollongong lighthouse.

About 12 men helped to lift the still fighting shark into the tank. As soon as the fish was placed in the tank a team of four men commenced to swirl the water, so the shark would have no difficulty in breathing. Taking turn about, they continued this until arrival in Sydney. Shortly after 6 p. If the shark lives for seven days the three Wollongong fishermen, Messrs C.

McAuley, J. Knight and R. Hallstrom has offered this reward to the persons catching a suitable exhibit for Taronga Park. The Zoo has been without a shark exhibit since 'Skipper' died some months ago. One is groggy and the other is rare. The Taronga Park Trust chairman Mr. Hallstrom, today accepted the aquarium's second shark in two days. The first, an 8ft.

Fishermen towed it 10 milees to Port Kembla. Hallstrom sent eight men in a truck, and a water tank, for the shark, which reached Taronga on Saturday. Latest reports claim that the shark is groggy. The second shark arrived at the aquarium today. Four shark meshers caught it off South Curl Curt Beach. It is 7 ft. Experts said that it was a rare black-tailed porbeagle shark, seldom seen in these waters.

Maryborough Chronicle Qld. The porbeagle Lamna nasus is a species of mackerel shark in the family Lamnidae, distributed widely in the cold and temperate marine waters of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere. The meat and fins of the porbeagle are highly valued, which has led to a long history of intense human exploitation. However, this species cannot sustain heavy fishing pressure due to its low reproductive capacity.

Direct commercial fishing for the porbeagle, principally by Norwegian longliners, led to stock collapses in the eastern North Atlantic in the s, and the western North Atlantic in the s. The porbeagle continues to be caught throughout its range, both intentionally and as bycatch, with varying degrees of monitoring and management. The maximum lifespan of this species appears to be 30—40 years in the Atlantic, but could be as much as 65 years in the South Pacific.

He is the st animal baby successfully born and bred at Taronga Park since the zoo was shifted there from Moore Park 35 years ago — and fourth of his spotted kind. Paddy, who made his debut in the Big World only a fortnight ago — after a few weeks in the dark recesses of his mother's den — is one of the friendliest leopard cubs lever bred at the zoo.

He was so friendly with the Sun cameraman that Ma turned on him. The odd thing is that Paddy's mother is herself the tamest leopard ever seen in Taronga Park. Said a Zoo keeper today: "We can't make the old lady out. She's as docile as a tabby, but she seems to have other ideas for young Paddy's future behavior. Firefly breaks back on H. S SydneyMarch 1.

Hallstrom said last night that he would meet the cost of the university's sending a scientist to Mildura to investigate the effect of myxomatosis on marsupials. Hallstrom is vice-president of the Fauna Protection Board. Dew, said that Dr. Bolliger, considered Australia's leading authority on marsupials, would carry out the investigation.

Bolliger said he hoped to fly to Mildura on Sunday. Morris, last night denied a report in a Sydney newspaper that he had said doctors were "completely baffled by the encephalitis virus. The Minister for National Development, Mr. Casey, said in Canberra that the myxomatosis virus had not been tested on humans, but on some higher forms of monkeys, which reacted in a similar manner to humans to the virus.

The virus had been tested on a number of domestic animals as well. Casey repeated that leading scientists in Australia had stated that the myxomatosis virus did not affect humans. Hallstrom Replies. Sir,-My attention has been drawn to three letters in the "Herald," September 4, under the heading,''Lions for Circuses. So that they may know the true position, I am taking this opportunity of setting the facts out, and will be obliged if you will be so good as to publish my letter to remove the erroneous misconception that has arisen.

One letter, "Be Fair to Beasts," in my opinion, is particularly damaging, unkind, and untrue, and is not being kind to a human being whilst claiming to "be fair to beasts. Nothing more than that. No promise on my part to sell lions or to buy them. It was interesting news and should not have been capable of distortion. There is no project in existence for the selling of lions by me to circuses.

The other item of news was that Chicago Zoo offered to sell Taronga Park five kangaroos. I consider that particularly interesting, and to offer to sell us kangaroos amounted to "taking coal to Newcastle. Even if there were some arrangement to sell or dispose of surplus stock in Taronga Park, surely I could be trusted with the destiny of a few animals that come under my care there.

Perhaps, the writers of the letters do not know that both in my private capacity, and at Taronga Park, I am continually having birds and animals sent to me or placed under my care because of their ill-health or injury. These birds and animals are restored to health, returned to their owners, or returned to their natural habitats. From injured koala bears sent to me, I have built up a sanctuary where these injured creatures are now breeding, and are under the jurisdiction of the Fauna Board.

LettersSeptember 5. Legislative Council Office, Sydney, 20th September, IT is hereby notified, for general information, that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, this day assented to the undermentioned Act passed by the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, viz.

Can Boongarry, tree-kangaroo, jump ft. We have a racehorse somewhere in the family called Jean Garry, a black mare that "also ran" at Caulfield, and her sire was a steeplechaser most aptly called Boongarry, which is the native name for the Tree Kangaroo, the world's champion long distance jumper. Before I tell you something about this Boongarry —the marsupial, not the horse— may I explain that you can have too much of a good thing, and see so many rarities that they, become no longer rare.

I have in mind a remarkable botanical curiosity called a Maidenhair Tree, or Gingko, which is; a relic of a wonderful period in earth's history when all vegetation was ferns. It is, therefore, a living fossil. It is a sacred Japanese tree and there were once only three in Melbourne. But someone with lots of money ordered a whole avenue of them to be propagated and planted in the Dandenong Ranges.

The curio became a commonplace. Common in Sydney. There was once a Tree-climbing Kangaroo in the Melbourne Zoo, and we used to gaze upon it as a great wonder. I saw in Sydney so many Boongarries that one of the rarest marsupials in Australia became almost as common as guinea pigs —and about as interesting. I suppose if you papered your dining room with Corot's "Bent Tree.

And fancy a hundred Mona Lisas smiling. There are only two kinds of Tree-climbing Kangaroos in Australia — the true Boongarry or Lumholtz Tree-Kangaroo named after Carl Lumholtz, who discovered it in the Herbert River district of Queensland during an exploration; and the smaller species, Bennett's Tree Kangaroo. Boongarry is a very handsome creature with grey coat and creamy waist-coat, and a coal black face.

He can cover the ground quite nimbly, but his home and hunting-grounds are in the tree-tops. He, if hard pressed or if someone cuts down the tree, can leap from these arboreal heights 60ft. It has even been said that Boongarry can land safely from a tree-top ft. Some student in physics with a knowledge of the acceleration rate of falling bodies may calculate the force of Boongarry's impact upon earth after a leap from such a height.

If he assures us that no living bone arid muscle could I withstand such a shock, I will believe him. Boongarry is simply a kangaroo that has gone aloft and adapted himself for a tree-top existence. In so doing he has developed marked differences from his ground-living relatives. His fore and hind legs are nearly equal in development, because all four are in use in tree-climbing, whereas the ordinary kangaroo's hind legs are abnormally developed for jumping, while its forelegs have dwindled almost to the degree where they are just a support for the paws.

In the tree-climbers, the hind feet are broad and the second and third toes are quite well developed and not just appendages of the great toe as in true kangaroos. Moreover, the claws of the fourth and fifth toes are strongly curved for clasping boughs. Unlike possums, Boongarry does not use his tail to grip the boughs of a tree for greater safety but maintains balance with -his fore and hind Jimbs while his tail hangs loosely down beneath him.

It would be a gigantic tree- python that could challenge Boongarry in the tree-tops, and I cannot think of any other enemy that would cause him to take prodigious leaps of 60 ft. What ft. The green and gold tree-python of New Guinea could scarcely frighten a ring- tail possum, anyhow, being only about four feet long. So I think that when Boongarry comes down to earth he would very likely do it as you or I would by climbing slowly and safely down to the bottom branches, and dropping neatly down without unnecessary risk.

Have you any idea of what a ft. Can Boongarry, tree-kangaroo jump ft. Weekly Times Melbourne, Vic. Hallstrom would also take animals that were not wanted elsewhere - sometimes with tragic results. An elephant named 'Nellie' fell into a moat and broke her back at the elephant enclosure decades before elephants were housed in more suitable 'fields':.

Sydney, May Officials said this after a post-mortem examination yesterday. Nellie fell into the moat that guards the Zoo's elephant house on Saturday. The president of the Taronga Park Trust, Mr. Hallstrom, said last night that the post-mortem examination had been held yesterday instead of Monday to prove or disprove the theory that Nellie had been strangled.

He said that filling in of the moat would start today. The moat would be replaced with a fence of steel and concrete strong enough to withstand a ton blow. Large crowds congregated at the elephant house yesterday. The elephants missed Nellie, a keeper said. Nellie, rogue elephant aboard the "Arcadia" accepts an apple from Mr. Taking animals could no longer be where they once were also brought a few celebrities of the animal world to the zoo:.

Sir Edward said he would break Jimmy of his drinking habit when he got him to Taronga Park. Jimmy, formerly the star chimpanzee of the Tarzan films, has been voyaging around the Pacific with actor yachtsman John Calvert. Sir Edward said Jimmy would be allowed a ration of cigarettes but no alcohol at Taronga Park. Although, as can be seen above from some items, Mr.

Hallstrom was considered a 'talented amateur', Taronga flourished under his stewardship. Times change and his own focus on bringing in specialists in each field for each animal, zoologists, while still being 'The Chief'. The tenacious keeper of Taronga Zoo. The answer, as Mosman motorists learnt to their annoyance this week, is that Taronga Park Zoological Trust owns the road, and can do what it likes.

Very well then, let us go further: what statutory right has 77 years old Sir Edward to decide or help decide what the Trust shall do? The answer to this question is-none. The truth of the matter is that for the last five years Sir Edward has exercised authority of a kind which is probably unique in the major zoological gardens of the world.

This is not correct. The real president honorary, though not for life is Sir Edward's 49 years old son, Mr. John Hallstrom. Yet the only public statements made about Taronga since John Hallstrom's appointment to this office in have all come from Sir Edward. Unfortunately, the Public Parks Act provides that all members of public trusts in N.

But not Sir Edward. As his 70th birthday approached, the N. Parliament amended the Act "in its application to Sir Edward Hallstrom" by replacing the words "seventy years" with "seventy-three years. At a farewell function inthe then Premier, the late Mr. Cahill, "nominated" Sir Edward as an "honorary life director" of the Trust, and at its next meeting the Trust seconded this informal nomination.

Ever since then, with not a skerrick of statutory authority, Sir Edward has continued to exercise wide executive power. He no longer has a Trustee's vote, but he attends all Trust meetings, and at each meeting he submits a report for the Trustees' consideration. They've never turned me down on anything yet though. Although now in his 78th year, Sir Steward usually works a six-hour day from Monday to Friday at Taronga-unless, of course, he happens to be overseas on zoo business.

During the last two years, he has made three trips to the United Stales, six to New Guinea, and one to Indonesia and Singapore. On the. Angeles Zoo, and received in return the skeleton of a 20, years old. It is impossible not to admire Sir Edward's philanthropy and vitality, but his policy of zoo management is by no means above criticism. Before he became president of the Trust, Taronga had a curator and an assistant curator, both of whom were trained veterinarians.

These men retired or resigned during the early s and were not replaced. Today Taronga has neither a veterinary scientist nor a trained zoologist on its staff. I acquired seven, and I've still got seven. What do I want a zoologist for? Compare this with the view expressed recently by Professor Bernhard Grzimek, director of Frankfurt Zoological Gardens.

Professor Grzimek, who is renowned throughout the world not only as a zoo director but also as a crusader for the preservation of wild life in Tanganyika's Serengeti game reserve, is at present visiting Australia. Interviewed here the other day, he said that Frankfurt Zoo employed eight scientists: two veterinarians and six biologists.

Setting aside or taking on looking after bush and the flora and fauna that thrives there was a Hallstrom family focus. When Edward Hallstrom became part of Taronga Zoo officially in he quickly recognised one of the most adorable and endearing Australian animals is the sir edward hallstrom biography of abraham. Even today visiting dignataries and celebrities are photographed with the koala.

Unfortunately the koala, which you see moving when it has to 'migrate' to different food trees through the annual seasons, and not all that much at other times, was hunted during the 's, almost to extinction. It hadn't been treated too well prior to then either. Pittwater, as we now know, has lost all the koalas that once lived here. The encroachments of developments, people allowing their dogs to hunt them, the loss of habitat food trees all combined and the result was we don't have any anymore.

Edward Hallstrom must have been horrified by what he witnessed happening and although he may have had one eye on making Taronga more lucrative through this beautiful animal's universal appeal, he also ensured the best in the business were called in to save the animal - basing his 'zoo' for koalas here in Pittwater. Hallstrom an application for the purchase of part of a private subdivision road which runs into Cabbage Tree Road, requesting that the Council furnish particulars of the dedication of the road as a public road, and suggesting if no evidence of dedication is available, the Council consider taking action under the provisions of Section of the Local Government Set to make the road a public road, after which it could be closed and sold under the Public Roads Act provided such a course is found to be unobjectionable in the public interest.

Resolved, - That, as recommended by the Engineer, the Council object to the closing of the road, and that it take action under the provisions of Section 3 of the Local Government Act to make the road a public road. Baths, McLean. Appointment of Honorary Rangers. Alice Edie Collins, 70 Spring-street, Arncliffe. Clement George Hallstrom, 55 Nicholson-street, Strathfield.

Koala Study Centre For N. The Chief Secretary, Mr. Matthews, said last night that, the deputy chairman of the Fauna Protection Panel, Mr. Hallstrom, had offered to make his property at Mona Vale available for research into the conservation of koala bears. He said Mr Hallstrom would put up any buildings required and would provide labour for the care of the animals.

He said that he and the panel appreciated Mr. Hallstrom's generosity. It was intended, to use the property as a centre for scientific investigation into the breeding, feeding, and diseases of koalas. Matthews said the panel was making a State-wide survey to find out about-how many koalas there are. He appealed to the public to give the chief guardian of fauna.

Griffiths, any information about the location of koala colonies in New South Wales Mr. Griffiths is in the Chief Secretary's Department. There was a bump against the front mudguard, so slight that it was hardly noticed by the driver. Anyone watching closely, however, would have noticed a grey ball of fluff, lit up for a moment by the headlights, bounce on to the side of the road.

After a time they would have seen it crawl away into the bush. That injured animal was a koala. A number of koalas, which sleep during the day and move around at night, have been hit by cars. Some have been killed. The more fortunate of the injured ones find their way to the private sanctuary run by Mr. Hallstrom, industrialist and naturalist, at Mona Vale.

Hallstrom is president of the Taronga Park Trust. There they are joined by others of their kind, who have got into fights among themselves, been caught in traps, fallen from trees, been burned in bush fires, and suffered a variety of injuries. During the past five years 50 to 60 koalas have been treated there, mainly for fractures and burns.

Over 80 per cent, have regained normal health. Hallstrom deals with cases of simple fracture himself. He calls in a vet. It was found that koalas strongly objected to being treated lying down. So a special apparatus was devised to enable them to recover in their natural sitting-up position. It consists of an upright wooden post, mounted on a rubber cushion.

The bear sits with its legs straddled each side of the post, and clings to the wood with its claws. After its broken limbs have been set, they are strapped into a suitable position around the post. How They Are Fed: If the animal is capable of feeding itself, a box of leaves and a canister of water are left within easy reach. Otherwise it is fed with milk from a spoon.

A young koala which was picked up in a gutter at Vaucluse had two fractured limbs and a broken pelvis. The injured parts of its body were set in plaster, and it was carefully nursed for nearly three months. It is now well and the mother of a baby at Taronga Park. I drove out with Mr. Hallstrom to see the odd koalas at present convalescing at Mona Vale.

The sanctuary is in typical bush scenery, on a hillside overlooking the sea. More than 5, young trees, mostly grey gums, have recently been planted to ensure a good supply of natural feed. Injured koalas spend their time in a shed during wet weather, and in a small paddock "hospital" clear of trees to avoid further injuries from falls when it is dry.

When they, are well enough to climb and take care of themselves, they are released into a acre paddock, where they live in completely natural surroundings. The paddock is also used for breeding purposes. I saw several of the convalescents perched in the trees. Some were sleeping peacefully in the forks of branches. Others, with their young in pouches or on their backs, were crawling precariously amongst the thick foliage after food.

Hallstrom look after the animals, nodded at one young mother who was working her way obstinately along a particularly slender branch. Mostly they send the young ones out on the tricky branches after they're a few months old. Two months in the pouch, a month being carried piggy-back, and they're ready to fend for themselves. I've seen them hanging on as cool as cucumbers with a westerly blowing the branches all over the place.

Where their eyes are closed up I use silver nitrate drops to take off the scum. Most of them sit still during treatment and don't make any fuss. They're not overburdened with brains, but they seem to realise we're trying to help. I've known them scratch and nip a bit at first, but they soon get tame enough to be handled. Once they get well and back in the trees again it doesn't take long before they forget 'civilisation'.

Hallstrom explained that most of the koalas get injured "on nocturnal prowlings after food and females," or during bush fires when they curl up in the trees and refuse to budge. Twenty-odd years ago hundreds of thousands died of a disease rather similar to sinus. Please note this following article will upset childrenwe would not read it out to them - it will upset adults too - but should form part of this record, especially during current times when we find ourselves in danger of losing all koalas - it also shows Edward's son John had begun to take in many of the duties in looking after the animals thank you Mr.

Leon Gellert Finds Himself. AN incensed reader has sent me a newspaper clipping in which, she claims, a libellous injustice has been done to a koala. It states that at Mona Vale one of these animals bit and poisoned the hand of a solicitous naturalist who was trying to succour it-a Mr. The name seems familiar. Were there any truth in this alarming story it could only be assumed that the unhappy marsupial, immeasurably wiser than its kind, singled out that particular hand as most deserving the honour of the first koala-bite in history.

Such reckless stories of the ferocity of our native bears may have their uses. Apart from frightening us into barring our doors more securely at night, they should act as a warning to those foolhardy wayfarers who are always eager to rescue a country's fauna from its natural surroundings. Man, in his dealings with creatures of the wild, suffers many misadventures.

He may be torn asunder by raging silkworms, brutally battered to death by butterflies or trampled underfoot by stampeding ladybirds, but he is never, never, never bitten by koalas. This is not to say that every-body who chooses to play fast and loose with a koala comes away unscathed. The single occasion on which I engaged one of the species single-handed proved to be a pretty bloody sir edward hallstrom biography of abraham. MANY years ago my friend Harold Cazneaux the celebrated photographer and I were assigned to bring out an illustrated booklet on the Australian native bear.

During the preliminary operations of getting facts and photographs at Koala Park, Mr. Noel Burner, the director of the sanctuary, placed an exquisite cub of about seven inches long in my arms while he and Cazneaux went in search of a larger specimen. Mistaking me for the bole of a stunted bluegum, the animal began to mount, hand over hand,[for the topmost branches where, if instinct could be relied upon, the most succulent pastures were to be found.

I tried as gently as possible to thwart its purpose, but my tender restraint was met with a cheerful but desperate opposition. The harder I tugged, the deeper its needle-sharp claws dug in. Having negotiated my vest, it scrambled from one chin to the next and began its ascent of the face, itself, where the yielding, penetrable tissues were more to its liking.

Eventually it gained the summit and, as far as I remember,- settled down among the sparse undergrowth and quietly dropped off to sleep. By the time Mr. Burnet returned my countenance was ashambles. But, there and then, I was given a lesson in the correct method of disengaging a koala bear from the human face. The procedure is much like removing a cluster of fishhooks that have become embedded in the flesh.

The booklet is long since out of print and Mr. Cazneaux's incomparable photographs have circulated on their own merits and have been acclaimed in every quarter of the globe. THE publication I speak of was an inexpensive little thing, and I can recall only one other incident in connection with it, and that was a true story that my friend Hemsley told me while it was in preparation.

Hemsley is one of those kindly, sensitive mortals who shudder visibly at the very thought of pain wantonly inflicted. One evening, as we were travelling together on the ferry-boat from the city, I told him of our prospective brochure on the koala, and saw him wince at the mention of the name. After some moments of grave silence he came out with his story.

It was simple and brief. We had scattered through the stubble and peered into burrows. We had combed the bushes and the dead wood for miles around but with no sight of a rabbit, except, here and there, a vanishing tail. And then someone suggested that we make our way up the gentle slope of ground to the foothills where, out of reach of the sun, under the tall timber we could eat our lunch.

But we soon wearied of sapling shooting and once more lay on our backs in the shade looking up at the blue fragments of sky showing through the distant wickerwork of leaves. It was close timber and the lowest branches emerged from their trunks some twenty feet from the ground. It swayed in the mild wind overhead like a tiny mariner caught in the farthest rigging.

And although none of us had seen one we all knew that it was a koala. Game at last! And then we saw a drop of blood among the dead leaves at our feet. Another drop fell beside it and another. It wouldn't be long now, we thought, before that clump of fur came tumbling down. It must be fairly riddled with lead by this time. From away up in the tree-top there came drifting down to us a sound that made us lower our rifles and stand close together-a white faced little group, paralysed with awe.

It began as a soft whimpering such as might have come from a forsaken child and swelled to the terrible grief-stricken lamentation of a heart hopelessly broken. It went on and on. THERE was no protest in that piteous crying-only an inconsolable anguish. And as the moaning continued we noticed that the bear had begun to move. Never was progress so slow.

And there it sank at our feet. It seemed as though that heroic mother had, with its last gasp, trustingly committed her cub into our care. And since that day I have never touched a firearm of any kind. But it was time for me to leave him. The boat was drawing into my wharf. But somehow I could not get the words out of my mouth. With a dumb gesture of understanding I left him sitting there.

Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia. Preserving Australia's Fauna and Flora. The Annual Report of the Secretary of The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia for the year ending June 30th,sets forth in considerable detail the various activities of this important Organisation, which quietly, consistently and altruistically, year in and year out, strives to preserve the flora and fauna of our country against the apathy of the people and the inroads of vandalism.

Regret is expressed that the Wild Life Section of C. Harold Coolidge, Washington, acting for the Society, were Australian delegates. Westerman, a Councillor of the Society, was also present. The Society is represented by the Secretary, Mr. Allen A. Strom, and Mr. A protest has been made during the year regarding the alienation of land between National Park and Garrawarra Park.

Secretary is A. Plan to save our koalas. FAR behind what the world has come to call the Iron Curtain, in a tiny wooden village schoolhouse in Bessarabia, I was once shown a postcard which the aged schoolmaster carried carefully in his wallet, in just the same way as a soldier carries the photograph of his wife or sweetheart. He had shown it to his class year after year when the geography lesson on Australia came round, and was never tired of displaying it at sir edward hallstrom biography of abraham under an oil lamp to the gaping peasants in the village wine-shop.

It was the worn photo of a Dinkum- Aussie who has done more to publicise Australia abroad than the Department of Information and the Departments of Tourism put together — the koala. Throughout the Continent, in all sorts of odd places, I came across photos of our little ambassador, who knows no politics, and who has captured the world's imagination even more than the kangaroo or the platypus.

In hotel, bars, cafes, restaurants you had to be ready to brush up your zoological knowledge of the koala, the kangaroo and the platypus once it became known that you came from Australia Wheat, wool and gold, Australia's rapid march in industry, arid its civilisation meant little in the school geography books beside our remnants of the fauna of a bygone geological age-saved from extinction long ago by a timely land-subsidence which cut our continent off from Asia.

To foreign eyes this land of ours is a living museum of ancient geological forms of life— a place where evolution stopped, another "Lost World" with monotremes and marsupials instead of the pterodactyls and dinosaurs. If there is any animal which has become a martyr to human greed and cruelty, it is the gentle, inoffensive koala; if any animal has a damning indictment to present against humanity, it is the koala.

In the days of our first settlers, it was flourishing almost everywhere except in Western Australia. But the harmless little gumtip-eater had the bad luck to possess a strong hide and a lovely fur which would stand up to a lot of wear. That started the white man's slaughter of the innocent. More than a million were killed and their skin's exported to America under the name of "wombat" skins, in order to allay any public outcry.

Only 25 years, ago, American fur catalogues still listed them as such. Under the depredations of the fur-hunters, the koala began to shrink fast in number. Then came the virus disease which swept Australia's animal life, killing off countless numbers of marsupials of other species, as well as the koala. The harmless koala began to disappear everywhere except in Queensland, where it had been on the list of totally protected animals.

Then followed the "depression" killings, when the Queensland Government lifted its protection from koalas to give "employment" to workless and raise money from the furs. Tens of thousands were ruthlessly shot down from their trees, in spite of loud protests from conservationists who were awake to the fact that one single live koala was worth, as a tourist attraction, a thousand killed for their skins.

The only country on earth with koalas was robbing itself of the greatest tourist draw on earth. After the "depression" massacre, Australia suddenly woke up to the fact that there were only about koalas left in NSW, about in Victoria; and in Queensland, where there had been a million, only a few thousand. It was thanks to men like Keith Minchin, in South Australia, Noel Burnet, at Koala Park, NSW, and other informed and capable conservationists as well as the extension of the Native Flora and Fauna Protection Actsthat the koala was narrowly saved from extinction along with the pretty little Toolachi wallaby and the other harmless and beautiful wild creatures which have become extinct within living memory.

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Toggle the table of contents. Edward Hallstrom. Add languages Add topic. Photo by Darekm Wikimedia. Sir Edward Hallstrom is one of the best-known Australian philanthropists who lived between and He was the eighth born. Despite being young in a family of nine siblings, Hallstrom managed to show dedication in his work. He proved to be a great businessman and developed the right mentality while very young.

Many challenges faced his upbringing. Hallstrom has many astonishing facts, and the following list shows the top ten. His parents had separated. Thus, he had to play a part in helping sustain the family. Later on, Hallstrom was assigned the responsibility of managing a furniture factory. Later on, he founded a bedsteads manufacturing firm. He was a great Inventor Crosley Icy ball front.

Photo by Jeremy Mikesell- Wikimedia. Sir Edward developed an interest in the refrigeration industry. This revolutionized various inventions in the sector. Inhe invented the Icy Bal. This was the kerosene-powered refrigerator, a significant innovation in the food industry. It was also his first great invention. The Icy Ball formed the base for effective advanced refrigerators that used either gas or ran on electricity.

The factory extended its products and services during the second world war to producing munitions. Edward Hallstrom was a philanthropist. Bengal tiger sitting on the dock. Photo by Briana Graham on Unsplash. He wanted to see a better world where people and animals lived in peace. He made considerable donations to ensure this was possible.

Much of this donation was directed toward the growth and development of the Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney.