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Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 46

At a meeting in Carterton of 33 delegates of dairy factories a resolution was passed favouring the sendinar of a delegate abroad to inquire into the sugar of milk, dried milk, and gther industries. On the 6th (reports the Nelson Colonist) some fishermen left a very large stingray on the Beach near the Maori pa, below high-water mark. As soon as the tide made sufficiently to bring the sting-ray awash, a 10-foot shark dashed in to snatch a meal. So shallow was the water that fully half the body of the shark was out of the water. In fact, for a few seconds he was actually stranded, but the next roller floated him off The shark tore the stingray to l-ibbons and devoured it. He had a big tussle with the head, and one of tlie onlookers stoned him off, but he did not go away more than 50 yards, and then dashed back and finished his hundredweightmeal.