ANGLER'S ESCAPE
MAN FALLS OFF ROCX3 AND ATTRACTS SHARK. JUST IN TIME. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Washed off the rocks while fishing at Snapper Point, Clovelly, to-day, Ernest Rosewood, 27, of Gibson St., Waverley, was lucky to escape from a big shark which was cvuising neaiby. He had gone low down on the rocks to release a gut line which had coiled around a rock, when a huge wave swept him a long way out. A sirong swimmer, and unaware of the shark's proxhnity, he struck out for the breakwater, hut, fortunately his hand touehed a submerged ledp'e, ar:d he hauled himself to safety as the monster was mnking towards him. Even then wavos smashed over hi-s head, repeatedly flinging him against the rocks and badly lacerating his body and limbs, and spraining one ankle. He was exhausted when the Eastern Suburbs Ambulance tcck him to St. Vincent's Hospital, but, after trcatment he was allowed to leave. /
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 2
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