Australian Peacocks For
p. 44 · Read in the full issue
Tahiti
ISLANDS agents in Australia are accus tomed to receiving strange requests from their clients in the South Seas. Neverthe less, Mr. W. M. Reid, a Sydney exporter, rubbed his eyes recently when he got a letter from a resident of Papeete asking for a quartet of Australian peacocks.
It transpired that the Islander wanted them “to add tone to his garden.” He is contemplating importing several hens and may make an attempt to breed them.
Finding four birds of sufficiently good breeding to decorate the tropics proved a difficult task for Mr. Reid. Eventually he secured four at Wellington, New South Wales, and shipped them to Tahiti by the Makura on November 21.