NRS-20299 | Records of the Shark Menace Advisory Committee

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This series of records are those of the Shark Menace Advisory Committee. The Committee was established in response to a number of fatalities caused by shark attacks at New South Wales beaches.

The 1934 meeting of the committee stated the terms of reference as:

1. Investigate suggested methods of securing the protection of bathers from Shark Attack
2. Report to the Minister generally or in respect of any particular beach -
a) which of such methods in the committee’s opinion would be the most practicable to adopt; and
b) what, in the committee’s opinion, would be the most appropriate means of securing adoption of and of financing the implementation of such methods as recommended. (1) 

The records include a set of bound typed Committee minutes, departmental and public submissions into the inquiry and the investigation of submissions. 

Endnote
1. State Records NSW: Fisheries Branch; NRS 20299, Records of the Shark Menace Advisory Committee, Minute book 1, 22 August 1934.