NEW SHARK FISHING GROUND DISCOVERED.
(Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, February 3. j Fishing attractions of • Marlborough {Sounds have taken on a new I aspect, according to Mr S. W. Moult, of Titahi Bay, who recently returned from a month's cruising across Cook Strait. About a fortnight ago an eleven-foot shark was caught in Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, by Mr W. Hil- . ton. of Endeavour House, who was fishing from Mr Moult’s launch. An exciting struggle of an hour and a half Mr Moult saw many black taniwha in the Sounds, and was told that one of them had charged a man in a dinghy armed only with a gaff. The man. so the went, thrust the gaff 1 into the shark's side and so prevented it from overturning the boat.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18380, 4 February 1928, Page 7
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