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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 143, 14 March 1938, Page 3

The discovery hi New Zealand waters of a member of a rare species of Arctic .shark was mentioned by Mr. It. A. Falla, curator of the Canterbury Museum, in an address to the Canterbury School Committees’ Association. Fishing off Kaikoura, where the meeting of warm and cold currents produces a very interesting sea fauna, a fisherman recently caught a shark of a species strange to lihn and sent its jaws to the museum. A searcli through the scientific volumes of three libraries at length revealed that the jaws belonged to a rare Arctic shark of whose presence south of the equator only one previous hint had been recorded. 'l'his was some years ago, when the jaws of another representative of the.species were found at Maetjuarrie Island.