ATTACKED BY SHARKS
TE HORO FATALITY. (.United P/ess Association.) , WELLINGTON, This X>ay._ The following -particulars are available concerning the Te Horo fatality, by which Herbert Hodge arid his son Alfred lost tKeir lives. It appears that the Hodges, who are well-known and well-to-do farmers in. the Te, rHoro .district, we're net fishing in company witfc Udy, ofV'Wairarapa,-.on Monday , evening 8 o'clock: When nearer dark thira dusk they; were dragging, in a Tietj,*: on the,' Beach, the Hodges up to itlieir necks in. .the water, as Owing to the''rapidly shelving beach, the'liet had to be lifted' as well as dragged. Udy heard 'a'cry, but- took it to b&'a,. signal to haulaway from, the men,, he- could see above the watfer inHhe gatheririg gloom: Later, looking , to' sea, he missed tfceni. 1 H.e- called ;6uti Crushed to' the ! .'water. _ iJ».edgfi,: bijt. ing. . -'-vHe then 'tfie the police. / The ''infested- witßi big-.:grbund ; : sMrksVthre summer; It. is,, thoiight that-.they were attacked and "dragged under, \
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 January 1915, Page 2
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