WHALES PLENTIFUL
IN WEST AUSTRALIAN GROUNDS
(Australian Press Association.)
Cape Town, October 31
Tour Norwegian whalers have returned from the West Australian grounds. Captain Olsen, who has had a long experience in the Antarctic, said that he had never done so well. Twenty whales were sometimes caught in one day. They were smaller and fatter than the Antarctic whales, and in all produced 30,000 barrels of oil of a value of £lBO.OOO. Owing to the hazardous landing at Point Cloates, the sailors had not left their ships for three years. After 'a cruise in the South Atlantic Captain Olsen returns in May to Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 11
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