Empty Beer Bottles In Tiger Shark’s Stomach
(New Zealcnd Press Association)
WHANGAREI, February 11. Tiger sharks will eat beer bottles, but whether they drink the contents first, remains a mystery. Proof of their weird tastes was found by two Panguru men, Henry Morunga, aged 19, and Peter Pornare, aged 26, after they killed a 35Mb tiger shark in Hokianga harbour on Saturday.
The shark measured 9ft 4in and in it were a dozen large mullet and two empty beer bottles. The men hooked the shark off Kanaka Point below Rawene while fishing from a small flat - bottomed dinghy. They managed to get the shark alongside and stabbed it in the back with a butcher’s knife.
The boat was nearly swamped, but the shark quietened and it was towed to the mudflats and finally killed by clubbing.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30054, 12 February 1963, Page 14
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