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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1933, Page 5

Two b’oys, one aged 12 an,d the other a. little older, leaned over the edge of the wharf at the port of New Plymouth a few days ago, their fishing lines loose in their hands. Suddenly both felt, a bite simultaneously. Each appeared to have landed something big. There was keen competition to haul in to sec which had’ caught the bigger lish, but neither had, for it was one lish which had taken the bait of both —and it was a 21b schnapper. The fish caused no slight effort, on the part of the two boys before Im was hauled to the wharf, but when they did succeed they found that it had completely swallowed the bait and hook on one line, while the hook on the other line was firmly embedded in its mouth. Upon being weighed it was found that the fish was one of the heaviest that had over been caught on a line at the port.