“A GOOD TARGET”
POLICEMAN SHOOTS SHARK. PROTECTING YOUNG BATHERS. Wading up to his waist in the sea, Sergeant Hawkins, of Albert Park police station, shot a nine-foot grey shark with a revolver as it came toward him about 100 yards from the short at Albert Park, Melbourne. Another shark, seen near by, disappeared. The sharks cruised along, not far from five children who were bathing. The children were warned, and Sergeant Hawkins and Constable Crawford went to the beach with revolvers. Wearing waders loaned by a fisherman, Sergeant Hawkins stalked the nearer shark, which was the smaller. “It came lazily toward me,” he said, and made a good target. I hit it with my first shot, and then, as it shreshed the sea violently, I fired five more shots into it.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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131“A GOOD TARGET” Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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