RESEARCH SHIP
“DISCOVERY” IN AUCKLAND.
WHALING IN THE ANTARCTIC.
(Per Press Association — Copyright.)
AUCKLAND, July 4
The- royal research ship, Discovery, arrived at Auckland this morning for overhaul and re-fit. She left England ten months ago and lias.called at. Capetown, Fremantle and Melbourne In tlie course of her cruise, during which she has visited the edge of the Antarctic three times.
Deilwyn John, who is in charge of the scientific party said that the firstobject was to arrive at an estimate of the whale population of the Antarctic, - and to collect all possible information about factors which affected it, so that the control of the industry might lie so arranged that over-fishing and depletion of the stock of whales would not take plaoe. Tlie whaling industry in the Antarctic for many years had been of greater importance than that in all the rest of the world put together. Other members of the scientific party are Messrs T. W. S. Mon*, George R-avner, and F. D. Ommamney, all zoologists, amd G. Decon, hydrologist. From Auckland the ship goes to Wellington and then continues her investigatory cruise.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 6
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