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TAIPAN MEMORIES

ecently I was discussing with my older brother an incident that happened when I was just 11 years old. As a Grade Six student at Hughesdale Primary School, I was fortunate to attend weekly half-day horticultural classes at the State Schools’ (Plant) Nursery, situated next to the railway line at Hughesdale. I recalled that one day in the late winter of 1950, Mr Murnane, the director of the nursery, informed our class of a recently captured taipan sent down from Queensland and that he had the opportunity to view it at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, where it was held in