TAKEN BY SHARK
NATIVE BOY IN FIJI. WARNING DISREGARDED. Although Fijians are constantly in waler where sharks are known to exist, sometimes in fairly large numbers, it is rarely that natives are taken. The first shark fatality for several years was reported from Sigatoka district recently when a native child named Seniano Kato, aged 11 years, was taken by a shark while swimming in the Sigatoka River. With a party of school children Seniano went to swin in the river near the traffic bridge. Disregarding the warning shouted by some Fijian labourers working on the bridge, who said they had seen sharks in the river several times that week and two that afternoon, Seniano dived into deep water. His companions stated that he did not reappear and the water became blood-stained. On the following morning the remains of the boy were found about 400 yards down the river.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 11
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148TAKEN BY SHARK Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 11
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