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Show School News... ; Grant School ' ny Kutli Knimall ami j ' Judy Tipton Qn Tuesday Miss Marion Whnrn-1 Whnrn-1 bv can to 1,10 lli'nnt School 6th 1 fr'rncio. She is visiting the Unitod i States for a few months from Aus- tralia. She is visiting with Mr. and a Mrs- L'0 Rotwtson. 1 Slie lives in Adelaide, Australia. She taught Mrs. Robertson when she lived there. She started for the United States from Adelaide and wont to Darwin, Dar-win, Australia. From there she went by boat to Columbia Ceylon arid from there to Bombay, India then went through the Suez Canal. From there she went through the Mediterranean sea to Rome, Italy, to Yugoslavia, around the coast of Spa'n to Paris, and up to London. From London she went to Sweden, Swe-den, Norway, and Finland. She then crossed the Atlantic Ocean by boat to the United States. At New York she saw some of the buildings we have. It is the first time that she has ever visited the United States. She came across the country coun-try by train. She told us that she was born on the little island of Tasmania, just south of Australia. She said the central part of Australia has a very small population. It has only a few mines and a string of small settlements. The population of Australia is only about nine million, and scientists scien-tists have said it can only be about twenty or thirty million because that is all that the land can support. sup-port. There is one very funny animal in Australia. It is called the Platypus. Platy-pus. It has the feet, and bill of a duck, a fur body; lays eggs, and feeds it's young. It lives mostly in water and on the banks of water. She told us about the Koala bear and showed us a picture of one. It lives on special gum tree leaves. There are many kinds of gum trees but the Koala bear lives only on two or three kinds. There is a law in Australia that no one is allowed to have a Koala bear as a pet. But there is one Koala bear that is. trained as a pet because it was found deserted. Aborigines, the native dark people peo-ple of Australia, still live there, but when the white people came they pushed the natives into the central desert. Miss Wharney showed us a boomerang which they use to kill their enemies or animals. - The sixth grade now is studying about the animals, government, education, ed-ucation, ect. We also are writing a letter to Miss Wharnby. |