“CHIPPED” EELS
Golfers Face Prosecution (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, September 20. Two women golfers who “chipped” three eels from a water hazard while playing on a Hobart course face fines of up to £4B each for a breach of the Fisheries Act. Mrs W. E. Burbury and her daughter-in-law Mrs G. H. Burbury, used a number nine and seven iron to chip the eels on to the bank of a waterfilled ditch at the Oatlands Golf Club. They put the eels in their buggies and took them home for tea. But their shots came to the attention of Mr D. D. Lynch, the Inland Fisheries Commissioner. who pointed out that the Fisheries Act rules it is illegal to catch fish with an "otter, lath or jack, wire, snare, spear gaff, stroke-haul, or other like instrument.” And that includes golf clubs, said Mr Lynch. The women are now awaiting the commissioner’s decision whether to prosecute or let them off with a warning.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31170, 21 September 1966, Page 20
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