MOUSE HOUSE : ALICE HOPPING

During the big Easter race meeting in Alice Springs more than champion nags were seen running about the track. Racegoers who had another flutter at the casino were treated to mice sprinting about a bar open to the outside. Heavy rains in the Centre in past months not only produced a mouse plague but caused wild hops to flourish. Anthropologist, Aboriginal rights campaigner and artist , Miss Olive Pink , who urged eradication of hops for many years and ran a centre for the preservation of arid zone flora , would be seeing red if she were alive today .