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Otago Witness, Issue 3542, 31 January 1922, Page 50

Fishing stories are usually regarded with a certain amount of doubt, and open unbelief is often expressed (says the Evening Post,). Nevertheless the following, a local happening, actually occurred during the week-end. A well-known civil servant, who is at present camping on the eastern side of the harbour, spends a good deal of his time fishing, with varying success, from a rocky point in the vicinity of his camp. On Saturday last he was at his usual place fishing, using a schnapper line, when he felt a severe pull. Thinking he had captured something particularly large—and edible—he “played” the fish with great patience, and eventually landed it in the jvhallows whence it could be hauled ashore. Gre"t was the fisherman’s surprise to find that he had captured a large shark, fully 9ft in length, and which had taken the best part of half an hour to land. Colonel Leader, when speaking at the Chautauqua at Auckland, said that when in America he was called upon to move a toast to one of the Allies in the world war. He proposed : “The one that did the most and talked the least about it,” but mentioned no country. The toast was duly honoured, the Americans supplying the name, “Great Britain.”