WIPING OUT THE WHALE.
CAR IT BE PREVENTED ? LONDON, September -I. The Colonial Office is arranging with the South Georgia Marine Station and others to co-operate with Captain Scott's ship, Discovery, in the whaling research expedition to the Antarctic in 192..— (A. and N~_. Cable.) Whatever romance was iv the chase of the whale, when the adventurous even pursued it in open pulling boats with hafld-thrown harpoons, has long disappeared. Tho whale slaying (business bas been so thoroughly commercialised that the great mammals will soon be extinct, like the moa. The whale has no hope against steam, harpoon guns, and motor boats. The Bcientilic whalers appear to desire to reap posterity's crop of whales. It is assumed that the voyage of the late Captain Scott's Discovery is to be more protective than lethal, but the difficulty of calling a close season for whales or marking off a piece of ocean with notices to Whalers to keep in bounds, will appear to anyone who remembers how alarmingly large the Sea is.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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