WHALERS’ SUCCESS
TN WESTR ALTA SEAS,
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(Received this day at 11.‘in. a.in.) CAPETOWN. Oct. HI. pour Norwegian whalers have returned from West Australian grounds. Captain Olson who has had a long experience in the Antarctic, said lie had never before done so well. Twenty whales were some times caught in one dav. They were smaller but fatter than Antarctic whales and produced thirtv-six thousand barrels of oil of a value of £IBO.OOO. Owing to hazardous landing points the sailors had not left the ships for three years. After a cruise ni South Atlantic. Olsen will return in May to Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1928, Page 5
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