MAORI WHALERS
COW AND CALF CAUGHT ON EAST COAST.
AUCKLAND. October 31
Natives on the coast between O 1 tiki and Cape Runaway who use whaleboats for fishing purposes always keep a lookout for whales going along the coast, and occasionally are fortunate enough to .secure a catch. The .Maoris at Whiiianga. a small native ’.set tlenient up the coast, are mow celebrating a successful whaling expedition. Two whales, a cow and a calf, were observed on Sunday, and the Natives set out in their whaleboats, equipped with harpoons, with the intention of capturing them. They linrpo nod the calf first: the mother forced the little whale down until it disappeared from view, and the Natives tliecpup'i-;n attaPkc.l the row. which they successfully harpooned and hauled to the beach. Since the capture the amateur whalers have been busily engaged in cutting tip the blubber and boiling it down.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 3
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