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| | Rich shire lies on an uncertain shore | News | The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | AGAINST the backdrop of Perth's most exclusive yacht club, Graeme Simpson explains that the city's most expensive shire is out of bounds to native title claims, but the beach lapping its fringes is not. |
 | | A stroke of the pen back in 1832 gave white settler John Butler 101ha of land at Peppermint Grove, a single land title deed that was handed down from the prosperous inn keeper to the current shire. |
 | | Yet Mr Simpson stands on Peppermint Grove's wooden jetty, which, under state heritage laws, required the permission of indigenous traditional owners before it could be rebuilt from foreshore to riverbed. |
| www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20455599-601,00.html (472 words) |
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