WHALING
NEW COMPANY FORMED. WELLINGTON, April 3. The fleet of Norwegian whalers operating in the Antarctic regions will bo increased next season by yet another large factory ship with her attendant chasers. A new whaling company, Brunn and Von tier hippo, has been formed, with headquarters at Tonsberg, Norway, and this firm has purchased the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamier Opawa, which is to lie equipped' as a whale oil refinery, and the ship will proceed to the Antarctic at the latter end of this year. Tt is not yet known where the new company will operate, whether in the Iloss Sea area, or in the region below Cape Horn and South Georgia. The company which operates the C. A. Larsen and Sir James Clark Boss was licensed for 21 years by the British Government to eateli whales in the Boss Sea area, and pays a royalty on the whale oil to the New Zealand Government. The company which operates the N. T. Nilsson-Alonso and her chasers makes Hobart the southern headquarters. The ships of this company work to some extent in the Ross Sea, hut pay no royalty. The Opawa, which was built in 1906 for .the New Zealand Shipping Company by Denny and Bros., Dumbarton, is a twin screw cargo steamer of 9297 tons gross register, and for some 20 years was regularly employed in the New Zealand trade. More recently the Opawa traded between the United Kingdom and Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1928, Page 1
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