Samoan Killed By Shark
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From Our Own Correspondent
A Apia, Oct. 27.
SAMOAN fisherman, named Isaako, was recently, when fishing on the rocky coast of Savaii, near his home village of Samalaeulu, attacked by a seven-foot shark and badly mangled.
At his shouts for help his father dived in to help him, and chased the shark away. Isaako was then brought ashore, when it was found that he had sustained deep wounds in his left calf and thigh Before help could be obtained from the village, Isaako had succumbed to his in juries.
Mr. K. W. Bilston, Patrol Officer in Buin, Bougainville Island, New Guinea arrived in Australia in October on fur lough. He was accompanied by his wife and their daughter Margaret.
Mr. R. Eginton, of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd., Eastern Papua, recently left Misima Island with his wife and their two children to make their future home at Samarai.
M. Oscar Meyer, a young Frenchman of scientific training, who has resided in Tahiti and New Guinea, and has col lected for French museums in different parts of the world (for the last two years in New Guinea), arrived in Sydney in October. M. Meyer’s plans are inde finite, but he probably will return to France within a few weeks.