ROSS SEA WHALERS.
HOBART OR STEWART ISLAND? By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 24. Air W. F. Edmond, whose firm is agent lor the Boss Sea Whaling Company, discredits the Hobart cablegram b yesterday that Hobart is to be tho base for the new whaling mother ship and whalers next season. Me states that arrangements were completed hist year by which the Norwegian Company bought a base site of 41)0 acres ia Paterson’s Inlet, whereon a tine slip has been built. In view of this and other facts, and the total absence of such advice to Mr Edmond from the company, he discredits the Hobart rumour. Mr Edmond also states tho supplying of a new mother ship does not involve replacing tho Sir James Clark Ross. Both will he employed, after the latter returns from her voyage to America with last season’s oil. As showing the magnitude of the undertaking, and the commercial value of the base 4000 tons of Westport coal went direct to Paterson’s Inlet lor tho fleet last season. Repairs at Port Chalmers last year cost £12,000.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 25 March 1926, Page 8
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179ROSS SEA WHALERS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 25 March 1926, Page 8
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