Russians Whaling Off New Zealand
(New Zealand Press Association) KAIKOHE, April 29. The Russian whaling fleet centred on the giant factory ship Sovietskaya Ukraina is apaprently working close to New Zealand after refuelling and reprovisioning the catchers in Great Exhibition Bay, Northland, on Sunday night and Monday morning.
Two large heaps of fresh whale entrails, estimated to weigh scwt each, have come up on the Ninety-Mile Beach at Hukatere and Mangonui bluff.
Russian radio-telephone conversations can be heard clearly at regular intervals. The strength of reception has faded since Monday when the
fleet moved out of the bay and an attempt was made to call them on short-wave radio.
The factory ship has the loudest signal; the chasers are more subdued but there appears to be no variation in strength as might have been expected had the ships been sailing away from the New Zealand coast.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 1
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