TAKEN BY SHARK
NATIVE BOY IN FIJI WARNINGS DISREGARDED [from oub own correspondent] SUVA, Feb. 13 Although Fijians are constantly in Water where sharks are known to exist, sometimes in fairly large numbers, it is rarely that natives are taken. The first shark fatality for several years ,was. reported from the Sigatoka district a few days ago when a native ichild named Seniano Kato, aged 11 years, was taken by a shark while swimming in the Sigatoka River. With a party of school children Eeniano went to swim in the river near the traffic bridge. Disregarding the .warning shouted - by some Fijian labourers working on the bridge, who said they had seen 6harks in the river several times that week and two that afternoon, Seniano dived into deep water. His companions stated that he id id not reappear and the water became blood-stained.
On the following morning the regains of the boy were found about 400 yards down the river.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 10
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