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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 4

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Looking To Islands For

Mutton Birds

THE extended use of mutton-bird L oil for medicinal purposes, the result of the enthusiastic de velopment of the industry by Mr.

John Paterson, has led to an in creased demand for the mutton-bird ca^ e ? Pu ff ll us Tenmros ;^ Mr ;^ P - aters l 9 n . bas been or

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in There are countlSl mutton-birds along the coast of Queensland but, in the view of the Queensland Government, they are among the protected birds of Queensland territory, and may not be touchecl - As a result, the direc tors.of the Paterson Laboratories Innth^PanTi th % GS towards *; he IS fS n ? S fvT and n the Y they will get fr? 6^ a ™ J?~ p * pb fu °f °* the 1 " archipelagoes, like Tonga and the Cook Islands.