FIGHTING FISH
Iff MAR&BOROTJfcH SOUNDS. SHARK CHARGES : A DINGHY. * P'er press Association,. WELLINGTON, This Day. The fishing attractions of the Marlborough Sounds have, taken on.a new' aspect, according to Mr &. % Moult, of Titahi Bay, who recently returned from a month's cruise across Cook! Strait.; '"■. ■•■ An' li-ft mako shark was hooked in ijrideavour inlet, Queen Charlotte SouncC, by %. W. Hilton, Of Endeavour HouseV Who was fishing from Mr ; Mou]t'£ff launch. An • exciting struggle Of an hour and a-ha'lf ensued. Mr Moult saw many black tariiwha in'the .Sounds, and was told 'that One of them had charged a man in a dinghy. Armed with orily a gaff, the'man (so. the story went) thrust the gaff into the* share's side, and so prevented it from overturning the dinghy. ''' • ~
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 84, 7 February 1928, Page 6
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