Shark attack, 1936-02-04 (Unprovoked)
Location: South Steyne, Manly, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 15h00
Activity: Swimming
Victim: David Paton (M, age 14)
Injury: FATAL, taken by shark, body not recovered. Twenty months later, in October 1937, meshing (setting anti-shark gill nets) began  at metropolitan beaches
Fatal: Y
Species: White shark
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.67 & 234; A. Sharpe, p.68; A. MacCormick, p.169; J. West, ASAF