ANTARCTIC RACE
300 Whalers to Participate (Received 3, 11.3Q a.m.) CAPETOWN, Nov. 2. The whalers' annu;.- Antarctic race has begun by .lie dispatch of liighspeed scouts to peg the best girounds. It is anticipated hhat 300 sliips will participate, of ^hich 40 . rofwegians' are doeked at Capetown. They intend to whale furtlier east than ^ver before in the Ross Se.a The German factory ship of 16,000 tons is going direct to the West Indies, tlien south-east to meet the catchers; The new international agi'eement to which Japan is not a party withdraw the restriction on the number of catches, and limits the aize of whales which may be eaught.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 34, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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