WHALE OIL PRODUCTION.
According to a report issued by the Committee for Whaling Statistics, appointed by the Norwegian Government, the maximum of oil output was reached in 1931 (season 1930-31) with 3,686,970 barrels. In 1932 it was 915.842 barrels, and in 1933 2,593,77S barrels, which was only 200,000 barrels less than in 1930. A calculation of the oil output for the Antarctic in the season 1933-34 shows a figure which is about 100,000 barrels less than in 1932-33. The output of oil in the last two years is, then, compared with the production of former years in the Antarctic, very large, only the two years 1930 and 1931 showing a greater output. The output of oil in 1933 was 29.0 per cent lower than in 1931, while the number of whales caught in 1933 was 33.1 per cent lower than in 1931. The oil output has thus decreased less than the number of whales caught.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 24 September 1934, Page 4
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