THERE SHE BLOWS!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 6

THERE SHE BLOWS!

NINETEEN WHALES CAPTURED. Auckland, September, 5. After being engaged ill whaling in the vicinity of the storm-swept and inhospitable Campbell Islands for the past five months, the midget steamer Hananui 11" is now lying peacefully moored in the safe haven of the Auckland Harbor. There is little to indicate her calling beyond the harpoon gun perched jauntily, at her bow. She is not as large as some ,of the small costal steamers trading to and from Auckland, and it comes as ! something of a shock, when ;one realises that she penetrates into -the littleknown waste of waters of the Far South. 1 In rough weather, of course, she is practically turned into for she spends most of her time with 'the angry waters sweeping .relentlessly over her 1 decks, necessitating a strangle-hold on [the nearest immovable object by any of [the crew whose duty takes ; them, from, below. : ! During her sojourn jp,, Southern Seas,! nineteen whales were;cu,p't,\ifed, ,The "base 1 of the ship was'at/ "Campbell'' Islands,, where also there is another wjialing' party, which does its mammal hunting: in the open whaling boats-, with the his-i tory of which ao much tragedy and . romance is interwoven, For days -and'! days at a stretch the - vessel {sometimes! steamed slowly about without sighting! a whale, and then wouliFbe heard the! welcome cry of "There she blows!" Cap-' tain Hall, who i« in vessel,' told a Star reporter that the 'weather j had been modera-tafe— rough,-, and the' '•catch" he considered a fair one. Sometimes, he said, i liJi^vatfiilifitife trouble j in getting close up_ta..the quarry, but at l other times it wag, a inatt^-iof-extreme , difficulty. i