YOUNG FISHERMEN
SKATE CAUGHT BY SMALL BOYS
SPEARED IN WHITIANGA RIVER
While fishing at an early hour in the Whitianga river, an enthusiastic young fisherman, Gavin Moss, aged eight years, speared and landed a two-foot skate. With the assistance of three other young fishermen, Neil Mannion, Wallace Bowers? and Charles Moss, young Gavin Moss was able to hold the skate, a * first, cousin to the stringray, with his spear. The skate put up some fight, and it took these young lads’ combined strength and cunning to control the dinghy and spear, after which Gavin Moss succeeded in being the lucky retriever.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3249, 7 April 1943, Page 7
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101YOUNG FISHERMEN Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3249, 7 April 1943, Page 7
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