Good Fishing off Point Resolution
Persistent Shark People who slay sharks, hoist them for exhibition, and then cast them into the harbour, are regarded with malevolence by the crew of an Auckland mullet-boat. r pHESE mariners had betrayed an entirely impersonal interest in the monster killed near the Parnell baths last week, and suspected no set of circumstances which could bring them into closer association with the incident. On Saturday, however, they dropped their moorings, off Point Resolution, through the snapping of a rope. Diving for the chain having failed, the yachtsmen set off on their week-end cruise, but returned early on Sunday so that they could find the lost moorings at the ebb. Persistent diving again failed to results, so a grapnel was commissioned. Now enters the shark. In the course of three hours of toilsome dragging the grapnel lifted the deceased shark on three occasions. Each time that hopes were raised, the illusion was shattered when a cold and clammy eye peered from the polluted carcase hoisted to the surface.
If there is anything worse than a live shark, it is a dead one, in the estimation of the harrowed yachtsmen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 16
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193Good Fishing off Point Resolution Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 16
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