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Dogs cleared to use the beach WITHOUT any public announcement or the type of fanfare usually associated with “good news”, Mornington Peninsula Shire has installed signs proclaiming a small sandy beach at Mt Martha North to be “leash-free” for dogs. The appearance of the signs is the final admittance by the shire that the beach is part of Hawker Beach and should not have been so avidly patrolled by shire rangers over the 2017/18 summer. Rangers visited the beach more than 40 times, warning dog owners that their pets were not allowed there – on or off leash. The shire admitted its mistake only after being shown that Hawker Beach – a declared leash-free area – actually extended further south than what the shire rangers
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