BATHERS AND SHARK

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3871, 31 October 1932, Page 5

BATHERS AND SHARK

SENSATION ON BEACH FIVE MEN IN PERIL Panic reigned on the I each at Newcastle on October 1-3, when * 6ft. shark was seen in the breakers a ftw yards from a party of five HK-o who were swimming close to the shore, unconscious of the lurking danger. For the fir s t time this season the shark alarm sounded, and there was ,i wild rush to the wafer’s edge by a large ei«wd to wafeh swimmers race. b>r the shore. One lmlher wn s caught, in xhe “drawback" of a wave, and the shark m.ived toward him. The swimmer struggled to his feet, and waded to the bench. lu.wever, and the shark turned and swam away. A casual glance a* the su r f by one of the executive members ol the surf club probably saved the life at least- of one of the swimmers. Rushing to the shark hell. he sounded the alarm, and the outer swimmers raced shorfward. Even then the shark got- within 6i : of the lasf five swimmers' toward whom he had mad©.. Surf club members said jafterwards that they had liad a terrible fright. They expected to see the shark attack fhe man who was caught in the drawback.