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GEORGE BULLOUGH - WORLD TOUR 1892-1895

RIVERINA STATIONS of TOGGERMAIN & GROUNDAL

Article 19 of 28 * Published in the Accrington Gazette on the 19^th of September 1896

Written from first-hand research and illustrated from his personal photographic archive by George W. Randall, co-founder in July 1996 and former

Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends’ Association.

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Time of visit: June 1893

European rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, were intoduced to Australia with the First Fleet which arrived in January 1789.

The subsequent release of twenty-four rabbits for sport resulted

that by 1920 an estimated 10 billion (10,000,000,000)

rabbits roamed across Australia.

This mammalian pest continues to cause enormous damage

by burrowing causing severe land erosion, and damage to both human, farm animal and native animal food crops.

The population is currently estimated at 200,000,000, a fiftieth or 2% of the 1920 figure but still a cause of much concern and a warning about introducing non-indigenous species.

(See Notes 10 and 11.)

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Article nineteen continues the description of the 1892-1895

world tour made by George Bullough, (later Sir George, Baronet of Rum, Scotland)

and his companion, Robert Mitchell, published in a series of twenty-eight articles by Mitchell published in the Lancashire newspaper the Accrington Gazette in 1896.

The accompanying Notes are written from first-hand research.

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