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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 29, 1963
Page
8
Fifteen year old John Cochran of Allambee Street keeps a miniature menagerie including a six foot python a kangaroo birds lizards and white mice. This week he reported his greatest capture as a mammaulogist ornithologist and herpetologist.
A group of youths digging burrows near Mount Ainslie pulled a fox from a rabbit den. They kept the animal for a time before the fox was to be shot later in the week and its pelt added to their hunting collection.
An advertisement promotes Boomerang tickets from Australia and the UK with prices starting around £363. It directs readers to Industry House at National Circuit, Barton, for inquiries, listing telephone contact 72511.
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