SUPPLY OF WHALES
EFFECT OF ROSS SEA OPERATIONS ACTIVITY ON COAST The opinion that the extensive whalTi & operations in the Ross Sea must eventually have an effect on the supply, is held, by Captain H. F. Cook, master of the Hananui 11., a steam whaler, which operates during the season Tom a base at Whangmumu, near vjape Brett. Captain Cook’s vessel has come to Auckland for survey. During the off-season she has been lying at Russell, and she will return there, probably next week, in preparation for the opening of the whaling season at about the end of this month. Captain Cook said that so far no decrease in the number of whales off the New Zealand coast during the breeding season had been noticed. Should the coming season prove to be a poor one, it would not be safe to attribute it to the Ross Sea killings, as seasons of plenty and of scarcity had both been experienced during the past. A tendency, sustained over three or four consecutive years, would have tjo be noted before it could fairly be assumed that the number of whales had been seriously diminished.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 16
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191SUPPLY OF WHALES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 16
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