The Whaling Industry.
FPer Press Association.] Melbourne, This Day. Ail application has been made to the Minister of Customs for a bonus to establish the whaling fishery industry in the Antartic Ocean. The applicants state that a steamer fully equipped will shortly arrive in colonial waters from Norway, and if sufficient inducement ik offered she will make Melbourne her head-quarters. The Minister lias not decided whether it is best to give the applicants a grant of land or pay them a bonus in cash. At the same time he thinks Dunedin or Hobart would be more favorably situated as the headquarters of the industry.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 208, 6 January 1894, Page 3
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104The Whaling Industry. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 208, 6 January 1894, Page 3
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