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Wed 28 Nov 1934 - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)
Page 14 - AT KOALA PARK.
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BEARS AMUSE DUKE.
"LIKE WOUND UP TOYS."
The Duke of Gloucester yesterday visited
Koala Park, the protected home of Aus-
tralia's national pet-the native bear. The
animals amused him Immensely, particularly
when thsy looked at him with such surprise
and Innocence. He frequently rubbed his
hand up and down their soft furry coats, and
it was seen that he felt inclined to cuddle
one of the animals, but the fact that he had
other functions to attend, and not wishing to
get hair on his suit, evidently prevented him
from doing so.
"What curious little things," said the Duke.
"They are like wound-up toys." He was heard
to remark to one of his staff that Princess
Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose would
scream with delight at having one of the
little bears for a pet.
The Duke was struck with the beauty of
the natural surroundings of the park. After
seeing the bears, he had refreshments on a
grassy slope overlooking the western valley
of Sydney. As he smoked a cigarette, he
stood for a minute as though lost in thought,
his eyes scanning clusters of lvsavy clouds
and a forest of gum trees silhouetted against
the setting sun. He could see rich pastures
undulating to bushland, red and white roofed
homesteads here and there, and horses and
cows bending lazily to their feed.
The reserve outside the gates of the park
was packed with a surprisingly large num
bsr of people, and they showed in a lusty
manner the healthful effect on the lungs of
the outer suburban air. Schoolchildren and
their elders were gathered in large num-
bers. Residents for miles round, having come
on horseback, sulkies, and drays, arriving
hours before in their Sunday best. A group
of small boys, who made straight for the
park gates as soon as they were let out of
school, waved their school-tags, while other
children fluttered flags and held out sprigs of
Australian flora. A woman sat by the road-
side on the edge of a drain with six of her
children gathered about her. Each held a
waratah and R bunch of flannel flowers.
Flushed with sunburn and pleasure, too,
judging by his ready smiles, the Duke re-
turned the greetings with waves of his hand
and hat-raising, only to have the demonstra-
tion renewed. On the roadside tree outside
Lhe park two little girls, with long curls and
without shoes or stockings, waved franti-
cally with flags from their precarious perch,
calling, "Coo-ee, coo-ee." They caught the
Duke's eye, and, for them, too, he had a smile.
To enter Koala Park the Duke passed
through a white latticed portico covered with
white flowering wild clematis. On each side
were wide streamers of red, white, and blue
ribbon tied to íeplicas of kangaroos and
native bears.
The Royal visitor was received by Mr. T.
H. Kelly, the park benefactor, and by Mr.
Noel Burnet, part owner and manager, and
the presidents of Hornsby and Baulkham
Hills shires. As the Duke proceeded to walk
along the white, sandy pathway, bordered by
fresh young eucalypts, on the way to the
bear sanctuary, renewed cries of welcome and
"hooray" broke out from the crowd outside.
A peacock broke in with its clarion-like cry,
and an emu ran across in front of the Duke
with its mouth open, uttering a strange
gurgling sound.
Further along the path a kangaroo stretch-
ed lazily on the glass with its young scratch-
ing himself nearby. On the approach of the
Royal party the young one jumped into the
pouch of its mother, who immediately made
off. The Duke laughed heartily at a remark
that "the lazy young things ride about with
their mothers all day long." Another kan-
garoo jumped to an attitude of defence, and
balanced upon its tail In characteristic fight-
ing pose, the marsupial appeared to be stand-
ing at the salute as the Duke passed.
Further on, his Royal Highness was shown
the wombat, and he asked the difference be-
tween it and a native bear.
The first bear introduced to the Duke was
"Boorahy." He studied it for a while, and
his eyes caught three babies on the ground.
He made a movement towards them, and one
of the attendants placed them at the Duke's
feet. They rose and hurried off, and the
Duke was highly amused at their ludicrously
clumsy movements.
Mr. Burnet informed the Duke that the
bears were becoming extinct, and he ex-
pressed surprise that they had been let to
die out to such an extent. Mr. Burnet ex-
plained that the bear was a most delicate
animal to rear in captivity, and that it had
many idiosyncrasies.
During the visit, Dr. M. Humphrey handed
the Duke, through his private secretary, a
photo of the figurehead of the Windsor Castle
on Garden Island. The figurehead of the
ship contains the full figure of Queen Vic-
toria in full Royal robes.
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AT KOALA PARK. (1934, November 28). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 14. Retrieved May 3, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17133871
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"AT KOALA PARK." The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) 28 November 1934: 14. Web. 3 May 2019 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17133871>.
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