The History of the Emus in Western Australia

O'Leary eventually got his payment reduced though to one pound 14 shillings. He didn't want to pay anything encountered with an accounting of how much money he had spent personally on the effort including 9 pounds for victuallying his majesty's troops. 284,704 emus were known to have been killed by farmers between 1945 and 1960 so in just 15 years time.