SHARKS IN AUCKLAND
SWIMMERS BECOME CAUTIOUS.
HARBOUR RACES NOT FAVOURED [By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 7, With the advent of real swimming weather the baths will probably ® more crowded than usual owing to tne fear of sharks in the harbour. . Many sharks were caught m to&Vr shallow water last summer, and the capture of two from the Ponsonby wharf last week serves to indicate that the Waitemata is not to be so free from the shark danger as formerly. There are many who scoff at the danger, but most people have no desire to test the matter, and it is to be remarked that the entries for the harbour swimming races this year are not so numerous, evidently on this account. Certainly swimmers are far more cautious than they used to bo. Once it was a common thing for swimmers to go out to the Watchman off Ponsonby wharf on Sunday mornings, but they do so no longer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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159SHARKS IN AUCKLAND Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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