WHALE SIGHTED
Our Own Correspondent.)
LARGE SPECIMEN OF "SULPHUR BQTTOM" SPECIES
(From
Opotiki Monday. • A party of relief workers from lxear Te Kaha on the East Coast Road report that Messrs J. Pirini, J. Foy and A. Dane, sighted a whale while fishing from a small boat recently. Tlxe whale was wh'at is kixown as a "sulphur hottomed whale" and was about 80 feet long. It passed within about 20 yards of the boat which was lxearly swanxped by the swell whexx the big mammal submerged. The Maoris state that this type of whale is too dangerous to harpoon from their wh'ale-boats owing to the fact that it is likely to travel at as high a rate as 50 miles an hour, taking the boat with it, or when sounding it goes down so rapidly that unless tWe xs aix exceptionally good man Jxg.pdling the axe with which to cut the rope hoth boat and crew xxxay also be dragged under.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 September 1932, Page 5
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161WHALE SIGHTED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 September 1932, Page 5
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