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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2023, 7 March 1907, Page 1

Three men in an 'oil launch had rather an exciting adventure with a shark the other day about a mile off Oarnafu. They were fishing for groper, and had made a respectable haul, when occasionally they drew up their lines with only parts of fish on them. They knew the cause, but soon one of them hauled in half a fish, and that half was followed to the surface by a shark about twenty-five feet Jong. The shark savagely almost followed the piece of fish into the launch, the -turmoil tossing the boat about like a cork. The piece of fish was surrendered to the brute, who afterwards bung about the boat looking for more. The shark then got under the boat, and lifted it up and down, as if testing its capacity to hold together under-the strain.' The fear of those in the boat was that the shark, in his evolutions, would strike the boat with its tail, and do if some irreparable injury. The screw was set. going to frighten it away, but it was not to he frightened away by this device. For safety’s sake the fishermen thought it prudent to get away from the place.