Rainfall at Crown Estates Plantations.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 31, 3 August 1923, Page 3

Rainfall at Crown Estates Plantations.

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A' curious story was told by Bishop Gilbert White iu the course of an address at the Church of England Missionary Exhibition in Wellington. In giving an account of the pearl fishers of Torres Strait, he mentioned that one native diver, who had been under the water for the usual two and a half minutes, came to the surface with the marks of a shark's teeth on his neck. He was taken to hospital, I where he received medical" attention. Bishop White asked the man what had happened, and he replied that he had been attacked by a large shark, which seized his" head. The injured man added that when he found his head in the shark's mouth he punched the brute in the throat, which caused the fish to cough and release his head. The natives say that if the shark is struck in the throat it must open its mouth to cough, .

Station Jsuml>er of Days Rainfall ami Observer with Rain inches Magia H, Snortgrass 14 5.22 Tuvao ,, 14 4!°i Vaipoto Matthes Hi 0.71 V'uitcle Vv. Arps 9 :i.4o Vailele M. P. Medium 11 3.04 Malaefono C. 15. Christophers 10 :m Fatuosofia A, M. Williams 11 7.47 1'acpaeala E. Harrington 13 5.98 Afolau A. Possin 13 7.96 Muliiiuu Observatory 8 6,45