CAUTIOUS SWIMMERS
SHARKS IN WAITEMATA 'Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. With the advent of real swimming weather the baths will probably be ! more crowded than usual owing to tin fear of sharks in the harbor. Many sharks were caught in fairly shallow water last summer, and the capture .of two from Ponsonby wharf -last ; week seems to indicate that the Waiteniata is not to be so free from the shark danger as formerly. There are many who scoff at the danger, but most people have no desire to test the. matter, and it is to be remarked that entries for harbor swimming races this year aro not, so numerous, evidently on this account. Certainly swimmers are far more cautious than they used to be. Once it was a common thing for swimmers to go out to the Watchman, off Ponsonby wharf, on Sunday mornings, tint they do so no longer.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 7
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