Quail For Tonga
p. 54 · Read in the full issue
A SOMEWHAT unusual request was dealt with by the council of the Otago Acclimatisation Society (New Zea land), when a letter was received from the Department of Internal Affairs in quiring into the possibility of obtaining two dozen quail for liberation in Tonga.
The letter explained that Prince Tugi, Premier of Tonga, was anxious to ac climatise quail in the Group, and efforts to obtain them in the north of New Zealand had failed. As the Department offered to issue the necessary warrant for the trapping .of the birds, it was agreed to supply them at once.
Mf. J. Cummings, of the merchandise staff of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Salamaua, New Guinea, arrived in
Sydney recently on short furlough.