CAN BE "BOOED."
GEESE ON GOLF LINKS. OLD RHYME BAD LAW. Golfers at the Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club, Forest Row, Sussex, have been given official permission by the conservators of Ashdown Forest to say "Boo!" to a goose if they see one on their course. It happened like this.
For some time tliey have been disturbed at their play by geese wandering over the course from a farm near by. As the secretary said to a reporter recently: "They peck the green about, you know, and foul the ground." They did so much damage that the club complained to the conservators. The course is on common land, and they wanted to know if they had the power to turn the geese off. The conservators consulted their clerk. People quoted the old rhyme: Tho law doth punish man or woman, That steals the jjoose from off the common, But. lets the irreater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose. But they decided that the rhyme is bad law, and announced their verdict: Geese can be turned off.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 20
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