LYALL BAY WHALE

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 4

LYALL BAY WHALE

HARPOON FOUND IN ITS BACK. A start lias been made to dispose ef Uiß great whale on tho beach at Lvall Bay. Mr. Riddler, who was one of the finders, and who has, deposited tho sum of i'2s with the Government, as a condition that he will remove tho carcass within a rear eonable timo, got to work yesterday, whenever the weather allowed, and niaue ready for "fleshing" tho blubber off the animal prior to carting it ill to the Ngahauranga Meat Works, where it is to bo boiled down. The party succeeded in turning tho carcass over yesterday afternoon, and on digging into the back discovered about three or four feet of iron harpoon. This indicates that the defunct leviathan is the ouo which was harpooned close into Kaikoura about a fortnight ago, and that tho dead carcass, rising to the surface as gases genorated inside, has Ije<m washed northward by tlie heivy southerly gales; There ia little doubt that the whale was dead several days before it was cast up on the baach at Lyall Bay.