BATTLE WITH SHARK

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 2

BATTLE WITH SHARK

FISHING IN THE MANUKAU AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. “Zane Grey was never in the hunt,” declared Air A. Hamilton, of Kingsland, who was one of the party of four who, using a schnapper tackle,*landed an lift, shark in the Manukau Harbour yesterday, “Well, we were just thinking of packing up to come home when one of, the party nil of a sudden felt the line seur through his hands. The game was on, Out ran the line almost the full extent and the one who had hooked the monster, feeling that he could not manage his catch, handed the line over to me, “They did not know the size of the fish,” said Mr Hamilton, “but they knew it was fairly big by the way it fought. It plunged away from the boat, back to the boat, round the boat, back to the boat, round the boat and under us. At one time I thought it was going to fly right over us, It would dive deep down and then come up with a rush, It’ ! s great curved back would break the surface and as, it turned its tail would lash the water to foam.” They got it toi shore and when they cut it open they found inside 47 eggs the' size of tennis balls. The head and the tail were taken as mementos and the head could scarcely be got into a sugnr sack. The tail was four feet long and the whole fish was eleven feet. When they left the beach it was quite dark and they had hooked the shark at two o’clock.