WHALING IN N.Z. WATERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 24 May 1911, Page 3

WHALING IN N.Z. WATERS

NORWEGIAN FIRM TO COMMENCE OPERATIONS. Wellington, Monday. For the past six weeks Captain L. S. Hasle, representing Charles Nielsen and Co., Carvick, Norway, one of the largest whaling companies in Norway, has been in New Zealand enquiring into and examining the potentialities of whaling in the Dominion on behalf of his firm. He applied to the Department of Marine to utilise some of the outlying islandsStewart Island, Auckland Island and the Chatham Islands—and a port near the Bay of Islands, for whaling purposes. In his letter of application, he said it was proposed to use a steam vessel specially fitted with all modern up-to-date appliances for extracting oil and making fodder and manure, and specially constructed steam launches for towing the whale alongside the vessel. The Murine Department has replied to Captain TTasle that there is nothing to prevent his vessel being anchored in any harbor and carrying on whaling operations therein. Of course, operations would, the Department adds, have to be carried out in such a manner as not to cause a nuisance.

Captain ITasle speaks highly of the kindly treatment accorded him by the Marine Department. He has already made enquiries and personal observation at the Chathams and elsewhere, as to the possibilities of the industry, and coneiders it more than probable that a start will be made at an early date. He has been, and still is, in communication with his principals at home, and considers it fikely that ships from the company's West African fleet will be sent out to New Zea^d^to^ommencejjperations.