Show THE CURSE OF AUSTRALIA LIA kangaroos killed by the thousand vat but still plentiful rit in I 1 some me places the th e kangaroo plague says hard elard wickes science gossip has always been a great nuisance to the australian squatters for on an average these ani animals consume as much grass as a sheep it is stated that on a sheep run of to acres kangaroos were killed annually for six consecutive yea years rs and d yet their numbers remained ican T terr formidable idabel in 1 the locality in the colony of south australia hundreds hundred of thousands of kangaroos ara are 5 slaughtered I 1 aught ered annually for their skins and the bonus offered by the authorities the num berzof bera of these marsupials in new south wales in was estimated to be over and yet about kangaroos and wallabies wall were destroyed in the colony in that year A bonus of sixteen cents for each kangaroo killed is offered in australia hence the colonists are gradually exterminating these native animals over half a million skins shins are annually shipped to england and a large number to north america to be converted into leather the includes seve several ral kinds of kangaroos and wallabies wall the progress of settlement in australia has driven these animals from the more densely populated parts of the australian continent but in the country and unsettled districts they are still numerous enough to cause very considerable damage to the natural grasses so senous has been the injury thus wrought that the colonial governments and run rim holders pay a small sum per head for the destruction of the kangaroos |