SHARK UPSETS BOAT
NARROW ESCAPE.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, February 27. A member of a party . fishing foi r.chnapper off Puponga, in the Manukau Harbour, about three miles inside the Manukau Heads, had an experience that he is not likely soon to forget He was seated in a dinghy attached to the launch, when a sharx. which' had taken the bait from the launch, attacked the dinghy,'lifted it cut of 'the water, and capsized it. While the fisherman, who coulci not. swim, was struggling in the watei, the shark swam underneath him, but was prevented from attacking him by Mr M. Thornley, the owner of the launch, who held on to the fishing line by which the shark was caught. The dinghy was tie,d to the launch with a new "two-inch manilia rope, and this the shark, with one bite, snapped in two as if it had been a piece of thread. Mr Thornley immediately cut _the line, and the shark escaped. The other members of the party then lifted their mate into, the launch. Mr Thornley estimated the shark to be fully 14 feet long. It was the biggest he had ever seen during the five years he had been running his launch on the Mamikau.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1935, Page 2
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207SHARK UPSETS BOAT Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1935, Page 2
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