SHARKS’ BACKBONES make excellent walking-sticks. The officers of the motor-ship Rosaric, now in Auckland, recently caught 53 sharks in 14 days off Ocean Island. They made walking-sticks of the backbones and tanned strips of the skins for belts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 30
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38SHARKS’ BACKBONES make excellent walking-sticks. The officers of the motor-ship Rosaric, now in Auckland, recently caught 53 sharks in 14 days off Ocean Island. They made walking-sticks of the backbones and tanned strips of the skins for belts. Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 30
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