Reports Of Dead Shark
Two independent sightings of what may have been a dead shark, possibly the 10ft thresher shark shot by Mr L Quilter from a jet boat off Scarborough Head on Sunday, were reported yesterday. The principal keeper of the Godley Head lighthouse, Mr K. L Wilson, said he saw what looked like a shark drifting towards the lighthouse about 4 p.m. The dead fish was drifting from the Taylor’s Mistake region and was between half and threequarters of a mile from the shore.
Two Municipal Electricity Department employees, Messrs H. W. E. Parsons, of 17 Ensors road, and F. Gurney, of 8 Rosella place, also said they saw the carcase about the same time from Godley Head. “I’ve never seen a shark before, but this was a large whiteish thing and there were gulls flying over it and on the water by it,” said Mr Gurney. The whiteness could have been the belly of the shark. A woman living on Clifton Hill said that early on Sunday afternoon she saw a trail of blood about half a mile long, and about threequarters of a mile out to sea. It lay on the water for some time as the sea was fairly calm.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31335, 4 April 1967, Page 1
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