SEVENTH VICTIM
William Black’s death yesterday was the seventh caused by a shark in New Zealand and the third in Otago.
Mr L. F. Jordan, a 19-year-old law student, died soon after he was taken from the water at St. Clair on February 5, 1964, after a shark had severed his right leg above the knee. A 14-year-old schoolgirl, Miss R. M. Keightley, died while being brought to shore on a surf board at Oakura beach, New Plymouth, on January 9, 1966, after she had been mutilated by a shark.
Shark fatalities were reported at Wellington in 1850 and at Napier about 1896. Mr W. M. Hutchinson, an engineer and surveyor, who was carrying his son on his shoulders in about three feet of water, had the calf of his leg ripped off and died 15 minutes later at Moeraki, south of Oamaru, on February 5, 1907.
Another man died at Napier just before the turn of the century.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 1
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