Shark Sighted Near Lyttelton

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30367, 17 February 1964, Page 10

Shark Sighted Near Lyttelton

fbo Shark reports again kept bathers from the water in several parts of New Zealand at the week-end. Sharks were sighted from the Chrteteh N t p,er 1 . an< l Tauranga beaches, and Christchurch police broadcast warnings after LyHelton. WaS SlBhted in Ba "

Slaughtermen working at the abattoirs at Cass Bay saw a shark’s fin about 100 yards off-shore at 6.46 a.m. yesterday. Leslie Walls, aged 13, a pupil of the Christchurch Technical College and a son of one of the slaughtermen, drew attention to the shark. Mr L. p. McDonald, a foreman butcher, said it was the first shark he had seen there x? i°®« totne - The watched st circle for 15 minutes. From the size of the fin and the length of back sometimes exposed they considered the shark to be of considerable size. No offal is discharged into the harbour but blood flows im and this may have attracted the shark. At Corsair Bay, the beach Ktosk proprietor, Mr F P O’DeU, put up a notice to warn persons a shark had been seen in the adjacent Ca ® • Two launches made brief cruises to the bay but saw nothing. A careful watch was kept on waters near the Canterbury Surf Life-Saving Association’s championship carnivals at North Beach during trie week-end, but no sharks nw re »< ail C rted ’ *** ’eorotary (Mr M. B. Resteil) said yesterday. The Sumner lifeboat nertrolled 9 S a -. at North Beach on both Saturday and Sunday when surfing events were neM. . A 1W aeroplane, chartered cSS < £ tnterbury Aero Club, made four sweeps over searching for sharks but there were no

4k Scor ? B aharite—some of specimens—were reported close to the shore ? eer , popular Hawke's Bay beeches yesterday, said a Press Association message from Napier. o Tri*.roP°ri came from a National Airways Corporation pilot, who sighted four taght-footens off Westshore Beach. Warning signals and public address systems were brought into commission in case of emergency.