A matter of identity
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY, Dec. 10. The long arm of Australian bureaucracy has reached out to interfere with the eating habits of gourmets who have a yen for fried snake. About 80 feet of snakes a w eek are served up by a restaurateur, Mr Peter Beattie, who owns a floating restaurant in the town of Swan Hill, on the Murray River. The river forms the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria, and the trouble is that while many snakes are protected in New South Wales, they are no’ south of the Murray. This week, an unsmiling official of the New South Wales Wildlife Service threatened to prosecute Mr Beattie if he served New South Wales snakes. Mr Beattie said today: "I pointed out that he might have trouble proving in court that the snakes were from New South Wales unless he could get one to testify as to its citizenship, but he was unimpressed. “How can 1 tell which snakes were domiciled on which side of the border? After all. they don’t wear identifying football jerseys.”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34022, 11 December 1975, Page 17
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185A matter of identity Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34022, 11 December 1975, Page 17
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