TWO NARROW ESCAPES
CRASHING TREE AND SHARKS PHOTOGRAPHER'S EXPERIENCE [FROM OUR OWN correspondent] SYDNEY, Jan. 20 Twice within half an hour Mr. S. R. Somerville, a photographer, of Lismore, New South Wajes, had narrow escapes near Byron Bay. Mr. Somerville had decided to move his car a few yards to the shade of a large tree and, as he was putting the car in gear, the tree, which was riddled with borers, crashed without warning 011 to the spot where he intended to park. A few minutes later Mr. Somerville went into the surf. Almost immediately he heard people shouting on a near by headland, and his attention was attracted by a fully-dressed man wading toward him, shouting "Shark." He then saw three large sharks about 10 yards from him. • Mr. Somerville spent the remainder of the day 3unbaking on tho beach.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 6
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