SURF TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
BOY BATHER. GRABBED BY SHARK. Sydney, .January 3. The weather was fine in Sydney for the holidays, and was very hot. The surf drew great crowds. A boy, Mervyn Allum, aged 15, while bathing with some other boys, at Port Hacking, was seized by a * large shark which stripped the flesh from his leg and lacerated the lower part of his body. His companions drove the monster off. Allum was brought ashore but died en route to the hospital. ,•
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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85SURF TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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