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Grey River Argus, 14 February 1940, Page 3

There are plenty of stories of bathers being attacked by eels, but most, of them are put down-as old wives’’ tales or small boys’ fish lies, but there is one Wellington business man who knows first hand the truth Of‘the. eel attack story. He was swimming in a deep pool in the , Mungafoa in front of his bach and was. tackled when swimming under water on the inside of . the thigh. How big the eel was he does not know except that it, "elt solid when he punched it off and : left teeth ‘ marks over a gap/of abou t, 1 three inches. He has been swimming since in. the same pool, but has spent more time in gunning , for eels with ripe liver and a gaff than in the deep water. ■ . .../,